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corroboration

Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006

Corroboration is Evidence introduced in support of some statement adduced by a witness. It is not a feature of English law to require corroboration, even for confessions, but there are a few exceptions, in particular:

• speeding offences;
• Perjury
.

Where a witness statement is uncorroborated, a judge has discretion to advise a jury to exercise caution when interpreting that witness's statements. However, such advice is not normally given unless there is some reason to believe that the witness is not reliable. Until the passage of the CriminalJusticeAndPublicOrderAct1994, a judge was required to warn a jury against convicting a person on the uncorroborated evidence of the victim in a sexual offence, but this requirement has been abolished. In any event, in most sexual offences the only evidence against the accused is the uncorroborated evidence of the victim.

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