How Can Lawyers Assess Credibility and Truthfulness

The seminar is hosted by the Centre for Law, Science and Policy and the School of Law Research Seminar Series. Our series offers exciting insights into ongoing research projects within the law school and conducted by our external research partners. We often feature work from our research centres (the Centre for American Legal Studies, the Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for Science, Law and Policy, and the International Business Law Research Group). Our work is often transdisciplinary, dealing with law's relationship with broadly defined social justice, policy-making, science and much more. Join us for invigorating discussion!

In this session, we hear from Professor Hugh Koch.  Professor Koch has worked as an Expert Witness Psychologist for 30 years in the field of Personal Injury and Medical Injury and Medical Negligence. He has been a visiting Professor in Psychology and Law at BCU since 2017.

In this session, Professor Koch will give a presentation, followed by an interactive Q&A:

Title

How Can Lawyers Assess Credibility and Truthfulness

Abstract

Professor Koch will talk about several different ways of detecting deception in the field of Personal Injury and medical negligence. This will include verbal and non verbal signs plus the difficulties of making errors in assessing truthfulness. This seminar covers over 30 years of his experience as an expert witness psychologist.

This seminar has now concluded but it is available on demand. If you find that you do not have access, you can email the research seminar series leader at iyan.offor@bcu.ac.uk in order to gain access.