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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
Instances when corroboration is required
Meaning of corroboration
Nature of corroboration required in proving the offence of rape
Nature of corroborative evidence needed to convict an accused
Nature of evidence that constitutes corroboration in Law
Nature of evidence which constitutes corroboration in a rape charge
Need for corroboration to prove penetration
Need for corroboration where an accused person has denied committing the offence of rape
Need for evidence of an accomplice and that of a child to be corroborated
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
Purpose of corroborative evidence
The basic element common to what amounts to corroboration in law and proof in law
The doctrine of mutual corroboration of evidence of accomplices
The nature of corroboration required for a retracted confessional statement
The need for corroboration where a petitioner for divorce alleges cruelty and desertion
The position of the law on the requirement of corroborative evidence in a case which is dependent on identification or recognition of an accused person
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 purpose of corroboration
The rule that corroboration must not only establish that a crime has been committed but must also go to identify the accused with the crime
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 corroboration entails
What corroboration must establish
What corroborative evidence connotes
What corroborative evidence must confirm in a charge of rape
When corroboration will be required in Law
Whether a Judge is obliged to point out to the jury particular pieces of evidence showing corroboration
Whether a party's uncorroborated evidence is to be preferred to the evidence corroborated by the witnesses of the opponent
Whether a witness can corroborate himself
Whether accomplices can corroborate each other
Whether an admission by an accused person can amount to corroboration
Whether corroboration can come from circumstantial evidence
Whether corroboration can come from the accused person himself in a rape case
Whether corroboration can come from the defence
Whether corroboration can give credence to evidence which is deficient, suspect or incredible
Whether corroboration is necessary in a rape case
Whether corroboration is necessary in every case
Whether corroboration is necessary to prove a fact
Whether corroboration is required for the offence of culpable homicide punishable with death
Whether corroboration is required in all cases before a conviction for rape can be entered
Whether corroboration is required in cases relating to sexual offences
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 is required in the offence of sodomy
Whether corroboration is required to prove the offence of armed robbery
Whether corroboration is required where the witness is a tainted witness
Whether corroboration must be provided in support of claims made against dead persons
Whether corroborative evidence needs to be direct evidence
Whether falsity of evidence can constitute corroboration
Whether medical evidence constitutes corroboration in sexual cases
Whether the court can convict an accused person for rape on the uncorroborated evidence of the prosecutrix
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 evidence of a witness in relation to customary law must be corroborated
Whether the evidence of a witness which requires corroboration can be used to corroborate the evidence of another witness
Whether the evidence of an accused and his conduct may provide the necessary corroboration that is required to convict
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 offences of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery require corroboration
Whether the prosecution can fail to provide corroborative evidence because corroboration is generally not mandatory to secure conviction
Whether the requirement of corroboration in overspeeding applies to civil cases
Whether the unsworn evidence of a child can amount to the corroboration of the sworn evidence of another child
Whether there can be conviction for rape without corroboration
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
Who has the duty to provide corroboration in criminal cases?
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