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Approach adopted in evaluating uncorroborated evidence in charges or claims against a deceased person
Attitude of the Court where evidence of a party is corroborated by the witness of his opponent whilst the opponent's evidence stands uncorroborated even by his own witness
Effect of corroborated evidence
Essence of corroboration
Meaning of corroboration
Position of the law on corroboration in proof of sexual offences
Position of the law where a judge fails to direct a jury as to what amounts to corroboration, and invites the jury to regard as corroboration matters which could not properly be so regarded
Position of the law where the evidence produced by a party corroborates that of his adversary
The basic element common to what amounts to corroboration in law and proof in law
The principle that where corroborative evidence exists, the law expects a party to call such evidence in proof of his case and not mount the witness box and repeat his averments on oath
The rule that where the evidence of a party on an issue had been corroborated, that party’s case ought to be preferred to that which had not been corroborated
What constitutes corroboration where a confession falls short of establishing the corpus delicti
What constitutes corroborative evidence
What corroborative evidence connotes
Whether a Judge is obliged to point out to the jury particular pieces of evidence showing corroboration
Whether an admission by an accused person can amount to corroboration
Whether a party's uncorroborated evidence is to be preferred to the evidence corroborated by the witnesses of the opponent
Whether corroboration is necessary in every case
Whether corroboration is necessary to prove a fact
Whether corroboration is required in claims against the estate of a deceased person
Whether corroboration is required in collision actions
Whether corroboration is required in matrimonial causes
Whether corroboration must be provided in support of claims made against dead persons
Whether falsity of evidence can constitute corroboration
Whether medical evidence constitutes corroboration in sexual cases
Whether or not the rule of practice that "it is dangerous to convict on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice" is absolute
Whether the court can reject evidence that was not corroborated although corroboration is not mandatory
Whether the evidence of a co-accused requires corroboration
Whether the fact the the prosecutrix's hymen was broken during the act such that it caused bleeding and stains on her clothes or on the appellant’s clothes constitutes corroboration on the issue of consent
Whether the prosecution can fail to provide corroborative evidence because corroboration is generally not mandatory to secure conviction
Whether there is a misdirection where mentioned in a judgment as affording corroboration are not in law corroboration and yet there is evidence which affords corroboration
Whether there is a rule of law or practice requiring corroboration of any evidence
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