The court held that corroboration which goes to the heart of the dispute as to whether or not the complainant had consented to whatever the Defendant was doing, was enough to remove the danger of convicting on the evidence of the complainant alone: ‘Where there is corroborative evidence going to the heart of the dispute it would be unreal nevertheless solemnly to warn the Jury that, because the case involved a sexual complaint, there still remained a particular danger of convicting the accused without some additional confirmatory evidence, without some corroboration of the further element necessary to establish attempted rape rather than indecent assault or to establish either count rather than a completely non- sexual assault’
Citations:
[1993] CLR 860
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Doheny, Adams CACD 31-Jul-1996
The court set out the procedure for the introduction of DNA evidence in criminal trials. In particular the court explained the ‘Prosecutor’s Fallacy’ when using statistical evidence. The significance of the DNA evidence will depend critically upon . .
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Criminal Evidence
Updated: 07 May 2022; Ref: scu.227922