What is the current state of the law on the admissibility of a confession in a criminal case?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Bunn, 2001 MBCA 12 (CanLII):
8 The classic statement of the law regarding the admissibility of confessions in cases such as the present is, perhaps, that of Lord Sumner in Ibrahim v. Rex., [1914] A.C. 599 (P.C.) (at p. 609): It has long been established as a positive rule of English criminal law, that no statement by an accused is admissible in evidence against him unless it is shewn by the prosecution to have been a voluntary statement, in the sense that it has not been obtained from him either by fear of prejudice or hope of advantage exercised or held out by a person in authority.
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