What is the test for accepting evidence of corroboration in a sexual assault case?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Dixon, 1997 ABCA 125 (CanLII):
The respondent states that the trial judge did accept the complainant’s evidence. With respect to corroboration, the respondent, relying upon the case of Vetrovec v. The Queen (1982), 1982 CanLII 20 (SCC), 67 C.C.C. (2d) 1 (S.C.C.), argues that the evidence referred to by the trial judge was corroborative evidence in that it was evidence that allowed him to confirm that the complainant was telling the truth with respect to some aspects of her story, thereby supporting her evidence as a whole. Analysis
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