Where a trial judge makes no adverse credibility findings and does not reveal any impression of witnesses, an appellate court applying the correctness standard is in as good a position as the trial judge to draw inferences from established facts, and unchallenged oral evidence of conversations should not be discounted merely by reference to Watson v Foxman principles about the frailty of memory.
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