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impeachment: a standalone construct

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Evidence law

Attacking a witness's credibility

In the law of evidence, to impeach a witness is to attack their credibility (showing bias, prior inconsistent statements, bad character for truthfulness, or defects in perception or memory) so the fact-finder gives their testimony less weight. Munday's treatment in Cross & Tapper on Evidence sets out the permitted methods and limits for discrediting a witness, including the special problems of impeaching one's own witness. The referent is a courtroom technique for undermining testimony, which happens to share a word with the constitutional removal of an officeholder while meaning something completely different.[1]

Unit
The permissible attack on a witness's believability
Recovery means
A witness may be rehabilitated after impeachment, restoring weight to the testimony
Measured by
Assessed through cross-examination and admissible evidence of bias, inconsistency, or untruthful character

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References

  1. Munday, R. (2018). Witnesses. In Cross & Tapper on evidence. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/he/9780199668601.003.0005

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