What is the test for corroborative evidence in a child protection case?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lucyk v. Clark, 1945 CanLII 182 (SK CA):
Authority is not lacking to show that corroboration can properly be founded upon a probability, though not upon a suspicion. Thus in Burbury v. Jackson [1917] 1 K.B. 16, 86 L.J.K.B. 255, it was held that the corroborative evidence of misconduct required in the Bastardy Laws Amendment Act, 1872, ch. 65 (Imp.) which is in pari materia with The Child Welfare Act, must be evidence tending to show at least probability of misconduct having taken place. The mere opportunity for misconduct is not sufficient.
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