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A confessional statement as the best evidence on which to convict

37 cases

Admissibility of a confessional statement obtained involuntarily

10 cases

Admissibility of a confessional statement which is denied

3 cases

Admissibility of confessional statements under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act

1 case

Appropriate stage to object to the voluntariness of a confessional statement

6 cases

Attitude of courts to confessional statements

1 case

Basis for the admissibility of a confessional statement

9 cases

Condition for the admissibility of a confessional statement

15 cases

Conditions to be satisfied before a confessional statement can attract a conviction

20 cases

Conditions to be satisfied by a retracted confessional statement before the court can convict on it

1 case

Conditions to be satisfied for an inducement, threat or promise to make a confessional statement to be irrelevant and therefore inadmissible

1 case

Conditions to be satisfied for the court to convict a accused person on his uncorroborated confessional statement

1 case

Condition to be satisfied before a confessional statement alone can ground conviction

3 cases

Confession as the easiest way to prove a charge against a person

1 case

Distinction between a confession objected to on the ground that it was not made at all and one objected to on the ground that it was not voluntary

2 cases

Distinction between admissibility and weight of a confessional statement whose contents are disputed by the accused person

1 case

Distinction between a retracted confessional statement and a confessional statement alleged to have been obtained involuntarily

7 cases

Duty of counsel to object to a confession which was obtained in circumstances which violate the fundamental requirements of admissibility

1 case

Duty of court where an accused person retracts his confessional statement

4 cases

Duty of the court to test the truth of a confession

1 case

Duty of the court where a confessional statement contains confessions and self-exculpatory parts

1 case

Duty of the judge where the voluntariness of a confessional statement is challenged

1 case

Effect of accused person alleging that he did not sign the confessional statement

1 case

Effect of a confessional statement admitted in evidence

3 cases

Effect of a confessional statement admitted without objection

2 cases

Effect of a confessional statement found not to have been obtained voluntarily

2 cases

Effect of a confessional statement obtained in contravention of section 10(3) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Ondo State

1 case

Effect of a confessional statement properly taken in the presence of an independent witness

1 case

Effect of a confessional statement which has been admitted

2 cases

Effect of a confessional statement which has been well proved

1 case

Effect of a confessional statement which is inconsistent with the accused person's testimony in court

2 cases

Effect of a confessional statement which passes the tests

1 case

Effect of a confessional statement written for an accused person who does not profess illiteracy and inability to write his statement by himself

1 case

Effect of admission of confession statement without objection from the maker or his counsel

1 case

Effect of admitting a confessional statement

3 cases

Effect of a free and voluntary confession of guilt

48 cases

Effect of an admission that a confession was voluntary

1 case

Effect of an admitted confessional statement

1 case

Effect of an allegation that the signature on a confessional statement was obtained by force or trick

3 cases

Effect of an objection founded on the ground that a statement was not made voluntarily

1 case

Effect of a not objecting to a confessional statement

3 cases

Effect of an unsigned retracted confessional statement

1 case

Effect of a positive and unequivocal confessional statement made by an accused person

1 case

Effect of a statement wrongly admitted as a confessional statement

1 case

Effect of confessional statement not taken before a superior police officer

4 cases

Effect of failure of counsel to accused person to cross-examine the prosecution witness on whether or not the accused person made the confessional statement

1 case

Effect of failure of the court to make a finding on the issue as to whether the accused person made the confessional statement

1 case

Effect of failure of the prosecution to tender the confessional statement made by an accused person

2 cases

Effect of failure to object to a confessional statement at the time it is tendered

11 cases

Effect of objections woven around the denial of the authorship of extra judicial statements or the incorrect recording of such statements

1 case

Effect of the confession of accused person

3 cases

Effect of the plea of non est factum on the admissibility of a confessional statement

5 cases

Effect of the prosecution tendering in evidence a confessional statement signed by the defendant

1 case

Elements of a voluntary confessional statement

1 case

Essence of an independent witness when an accused makes a confessional statement

1 case

Essential requirement of an independent witness when an accused makes a confessional statement

1 case

Evidence which can corroborate a confessional statement

1 case

Factors that do not detract from the voluntariness of a confessional statement

1 case

How a Judge should treat a confessional statement

1 case

How a party can invalidate a confessional statement on the basis of non-compliance with section 120(2) & (3) of the Evidence Act, 1975

1 case

How the prosecution can prove that a confessional statement was obtained voluntarily

1 case

How the truth of matters contained in a confessional statement can be established

1 case

How the voluntariness of a confessional statement must be tested

1 case

How to determine whether a statement qualifies as a confessional statement

1 case

Importance of a confessional statement

1 case

Importance of confession in criminal cases

17 cases

Meaning and admissibility of a confessional statement

5 cases

Meaning and nature of a confession

3 cases

Meaning of a confession

48 cases

Meaning of a confessional statement

2 cases

Nature of a confessional statement

3 cases

Nature of a confessional statement

2 cases

Nature of a confessional statement

2 cases

Nature of objections that may be made against a confessional statement

3 cases

Nature of the duty on the court where the defendant confesses to the crime with reasons

1 case

Need for a confessional statement to be obtained voluntarily

4 cases

Need for corroboration where a confessional statement is retracted

6 cases

Need for the confessional statement of an accused person to be corroborated and the test to be applied

2 cases

Options open to a trial court when considering a confessional statement

1 case

Position of the law on the endorsement of a superior police officer

4 cases

Position of the law where a confessional statement is retracted or its voluntariness denied at the defence stage

1 case

Position of the law where an accused makes two statements voluntarily

1 case

Position of the law where objection is raised to the admission of a confessional statement

2 cases

Position of the law where the confessional statement of the accused person contained statements in part admission and in part denial

1 case

Principles governing the admissibility of confessional statements

10 cases

Principles guiding the obtaining of a confessional statement through an interpreter

1 case

Procedural safeguards for the admissibility of confessional statements

1 case

Procedure to be complied with to give validity to a confessional statement

2 cases

Procedure to be followed to determine the voluntariness of a confessional statement

2 cases

Procedure to be followed where a confessional statement is alleged to have been obtained involuntarily

27 cases

Procedure where the statements of the accused are tendered in court

1 case

Status of a confessional statement

4 cases

Status of confessional statement obtained contrary to section 9(3) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, 2011

1 case

Tests for determining the weight to be attached to a confessional statement before a court can convict on it

32 cases

Tests to ascertain the veracity of a confessional statement

62 cases

Tests to be applied where the confession of an accused person is inconsistent with his testimony in court

1 case

Test to be applied by the court in ascertaining the truth of a confessional statement

13 cases

The appropriate point to raise the involuntariness of a confessional statement

1 case

The basis ingredient of an alleged confessional statement

1 case

The essence of calling an interpreter where a confessional statement was obtained through him

1 case

The need for an accused person who seeks to challenge his confessional statement to be consistent both at the point of raising the objection and throughout the trial including a trial-within-trial

1 case

The position of the law on the evidential value of a confession

3 cases

The position of the law regarding confessions

1 case

The primary consideration of the trial court when it is invited to determine the voluntariness of a confessional statement

1 case

The principle that a confessional statement is admissible against the maker only

7 cases

The principle that a confession demolishes any defence of mistaken identity

1 case

The principle that an admission by an accused person that he committed an offence is admissible against him

1 case

The principle that a voluntary admission by a person that he committed an offence is a relevant fact against him

2 cases

The principle that a voluntary confession of guilt, if direct, positive and unequivocal is sufficient to warrant a conviction

21 cases

The principle that confessions bind only the maker

1 case

The principle that voluntariness is a test of admissibility and is a question for the trial judge alone

1 case

The procedure for determining the admissibility of a confessional statement

1 case

The questions a Judge must ask himself before relying on a confessional statement to convict an accused person

1 case

The rationale for the tests to be applied when a confessional statement is retracted

1 case

The right of an accused person to challenge the voluntariness of a confessional statement

1 case

The rule of admissibility of confessional statements

3 cases

The rule that a confessional statement must be recorded in the language of the accused before being translated into the language of the court

2 cases

The rule that a confessional statement must be unequivocal to result in the conviction of an accused person

2 cases

The rule that a confessional statement obtained against the background of inducement or threat or promise is inadmissible

1 case

The rule that an accused person's confessional statement should be recorded in his exact words

1 case

The rule that corroboration is necessary where a confessional statement does no establish the corpus delicti

1 case

The rule that where a confessional statement is retracted, the denial or retraction is a matter to be taken into consideration in deciding what weight could be attached to it

1 case

The stage when the voluntariness of a confessional statement must be decided

1 case

The test for the admissibility of a confessional statement

4 cases

The test of admissibility of a confessional statement

1 case

Time to raise objection to the admissibility of a confessional statement

29 cases

Trial within trial

40 subsidiary principles

True test of the voluntariness of a confessional statement

1 case

Ways an accused person may object to a confessional statement that is tendered in evidence

4 cases

Ways in which an accused person can impeach his confessional statement

1 case

What a confessional statement connotes

8 cases

What amounts to a confession

3 cases

What an accused person who desires to impeach his statement must show

1 case

What constitutes acceptable confessional statement

1 case

What elaborating on a statement entails

1 case

What the court may consider in reaching a conviction with respect to confessional statement

1 case

What the law of confession is concerned with

1 case

When a confessional statement becomes involuntary

2 cases

When a confessional statement is admissible

9 cases

When a confessional statement is made

1 case

When a confessional statement is voluntary

2 cases

When a confessional statement of a co-accused can be used against an accused person

10 cases

When a confessional statement will be inadmissible

1 case

When a confessional statement will be of any value

1 case

When a confessional statement will be sufficient to ground a conviction under the Penal Code

1 case

When a confessional statement would require corroboration

3 cases

When a confession is relevant

1 case

When a confession will be irrelevant in a criminal proceedings

1 case

When a confession will support a conviction

1 case

When a confession would be admissible against an accused

4 cases

When a conviction made solely on an appellant's confessional statement will survive an appeal

1 case

When it would be necessary to have evidence outside the confession

1 case

When the question of involuntariness of a confessional statement arises

1 case

When the tendering of the video recording as stipulated in Section 9(3) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, 2011 would be necessary

1 case

Whether a confession alone will warrant a conviction without corroborative evidence

7 cases

Whether a confessional statement admitted without objection requires corroboration

1 case

Whether a confessional statement adopted by an accused person can be relied on by the court to determine his guilt

1 case

Whether a confessional statement arising from a question-and-answer session is admissible

1 case

Whether a confessional statement binds a person other than the person making it

1 case

Whether a confessional statement can be admitted and weight decided later

1 case

Whether a confessional statement can be objected to for the first time on appeal

1 case

Whether a confessional statement inconsistent with the accused person's testimony in court is inadmissible

2 cases

Whether a confessional statement is admissible by consent or from the bar

1 case

Whether a confessional statement is admissible in the absence of the investigating police officer

2 cases

Whether a confessional statement is admissible in the absence of the person who recorded it

1 case

Whether a confessional statement is inadmissible in the absence of the counsel of the accused

1 case

Whether a confessional statement is inadmissible where the accused person is not informed of his right to counsel

2 cases

Whether a confessional statement is one made by a person charged with a crime stating or suggesting that he committed the crime.

1 case

Whether a confessional statement is part of the evidence of the prosecution

2 cases

Whether a confessional statement is sufficient to ground conviction

103 cases

Whether a confessional statement is the same as evidence given by a witness in court

1 case

Whether a confessional statement must state the reason for the commission of the crime to ground a conviction

1 case

Whether a confessional statement not tendered in evidence can be relied on to convict an accused person

2 cases

Whether a confessional statement obtained by threat is admissible

1 case

Whether a confessional statement obtained in contravention of section 10(3) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Ondo State can be objected to at any time

1 case

Whether a confessional statement obtained through an interpreter is admissible in the absence of the evidence of the interpreter

4 cases

Whether a confessional statement of an accused person is admissible against a co-accused in the offence of conspiracy

3 cases

Whether a confessional statement recorded by an interpreter is admissible in the absence of the interpreter

10 cases

Whether a confessional statement recorded in a language other than that in which it was given is inadmissible

4 cases

Whether a confessional statement requires corroboration

35 cases

Whether a confessional statement tendered without objection can be challenged on appeal

1 case

Whether a confessional statement which satisfies the requirement under Section 29 of the Evidence Act, 2011 would be rendered inadmissible by reason only of the failure to tender the video recording

1 case

Whether a confession becomes relevant

1 case

Whether a confession can be contained in a deed of assignment

1 case

Whether a confession is solely applicable to one made during investigation

1 case

Whether a confession of murder is sufficient to sustain a conviction

1 case

Whether a confession relieves the prosecution of its duty of proving its case beyond reasonable doubt

4 cases

Whether a corroboration is required where a confessional statement is retracted

4 cases

Whether a court can act on a retracted statement

9 cases

Whether a court cannot act on a confessional statement without first applying the test for determining its veracity and correctness

1 case

Whether a court can refuse to consider the voluntary confessional statement of an accused

1 case

Whether a denial of authorship renders a confessional statement inadmissible

1 case

Whether a departure from the procedure for taking confession statements renders a statement inadmissible

1 case

Whether administering a polygraph test detracts from the voluntariness of a confessional statement

1 case

Whether a judge may exclude a statement obtained through improper questioning

1 case

Whether an accused person can be convicted on his confessional statement where the defence of insanity is raised

1 case

Whether an accused person can be convicted solely on his confessional statement

52 cases

Whether an accused person can complain of non-interpretation of the confessional statement on appeal

1 case

Whether an accused person can object to the admissibility of a confessional statement at the defence stage

1 case

Whether an accused person can raise objection to the manner his confessional statement was record on appeal

1 case

Whether an admission obtained from a person by questions fairly and properly put to him amounts to a confession

1 case

Whether an interpreted version of a confessional statement is admissible in the absence of the interpreter

2 cases

Whether an objection regarding the voluntariness of a confessional statement can be raised at the defence stage

1 case

Whether an objection to a confessional statement can be made at the address stage

1 case

Whether an objection to a confessional statement on the basis of sections 14, 17 and 15 of the ACJA would render the statement inadmissible

1 case

Whether an omission to read an accused person's confessional statement to him in court vitiates the proceedings

1 case

Whether an oral confession is admissible

2 cases

Whether an oral extra-judicial confession carries a lesser weight than one made in writing

1 case

Whether an unsigned translation of a confessional statement is admissible in evidence

1 case

Whether a person can deny a confessional statement in the absence of threat or inducement

1 case

Whether a retracted or denied confessional statement is inadmissible

38 cases

Whether a second confessional statement is admissible where the first one is rejected

1 case

Whether a signed retracted confessional statement taken in vernacular is admissible in evidence

2 cases

Whether a statement is a confessional statement where it does not contain an admission of guilt

1 case

Whether a statement made by an accused person under caution admitting the offence is a confessional statement

1 case

Whether a statement made by an accused person upon demand by a police officer is voluntary

1 case

Whether a statement of denial of the commission of the offence by the accused person qualifies as a confessional statement

1 case

Whether a voluntary confessional statement will warrant a conviction without corroborative evidence, if it is direct, positive and proved

5 cases

Whether confessional statement must be taken before a superior police officer

12 cases

Whether confessions made by inducement held out by persons in authority are admissible

1 case

Whether denial of the signature on a confessional statement makes it inadmissible

1 case

Whether failure of a police officer to countersign a confessional statement renders it inadmissible

1 case

Whether failure of counsel to object to a confession prevents counsel from cross-examining the relevant witnesses for the prosecution or leading his own evidence to establish circumstances which violate the fundamental requirements of admissibility

1 case

Whether failure to cross-examine on a confessional statement renders the confessional statement inadmissible

1 case

Whether failure to sign the translated version of a confessional statement renders it invalid or inadmissible

2 cases

Whether hearsay evidence can be used to corroborate the confessional statement of an accused person

1 case

Whether it is desirable to have additional evidence outside the accused person's confession

13 cases

Whether it is desirable to have additional evidence outside the appellant's confession

8 cases

Whether or not a confession accompanied by an apology amounts to a confession that a crime has been committed

1 case

Whether the act of the prosecution tendering an accused person's statement is proof of the truth of its contents

1 case

Whether the burden of showing that the confession was voluntary is not discharged by a mere statement by a police officer that the statement was preceded by the customary warning

1 case

Whether the confessional statement of an accused can be used against a co-conspirator

1 case

Whether the confessional statement of an accused person can ground his conviction

6 cases

Whether the confessional statement of an accused person is admissible against a co-accused

34 cases

Whether the confessional statement of an accused person must be recorded in the presence of his counsel

1 case

Whether the corroboration of a confessional statement needs to be by direct evidence

1 case

Whether the court can convict on a confessional statement after being satisfied through trial within trial that the confessions were voluntarily made

2 cases

Whether the court can convict on a confessional statement not proved to have been obtained voluntarily

1 case

Whether the court may dispense with the personal appearance of the recorder of a certified confessional statement who is the investigator

1 case

Whether the Court of Appeal can determine the voluntariness of a confessional statement

1 case

Whether the court should subject a confessional statement to tests before acting on it

2 cases

Whether the expunging of a written confessional statement renders an oral confession inadmissible

1 case

Whether the fact that an accused person has signed a statement means that the statement was made by him and that it was voluntary

1 case

Whether the fact that the superior police officer who attested to a confessional statement was not called to testify affects the voluntariness of the statement

1 case

Whether the failure of an interpreter to sign a confessional statement renders the statement inadmissible

2 cases

Whether the failure to record a confessional statement in the presence of a legal practitioner would render the statement inadmissible

1 case

Whether the inadmissibility of a confessional statement is sufficient to vitiate a conviction where there is independent evidence on record

1 case

Whether the interpreted version of a confessional statement must be tendered in court by the interpreter

2 cases

Whether the issue of a statement being a confession or not is a question for the Judge to decide

1 case

Whether the person through whom an accused person made a statement must be called where the statement was not made through an interpreter

1 case

Whether the Police can obtain a confessional statement from an accused person

1 case

Whether the prosecution need not prove the case against the Defendant beyond reasonable doubt once a confessional statement is admitted

1 case

Whether the recording of a confessional statement in the official language of the courts can affect its admissibility

1 case

Whether there is need for corroboration where the confession is direct and positive

1 case

Whether the retracted statement of a co-accused person can be used to convict an accused person

1 case

Whether there would be a need for the courts to look outside the confessional statement of an accused person where he did not resile in his testimony in court

2 cases

Whether the statement of an accused person is inadmissible merely because it was taken in a language different from the person making it

1 case

Whether the voluntariness of a confessional statement can be challenged on appeal

2 cases

Whether the voluntariness of a confessional statement can be tested in a trial-within-trial where the objection was raised at the defence stage of the proceedings

1 case

Whether the voluntary confessional statement of an accused alone is enough to sustain his conviction

25 cases

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