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to remove requirement for corroboration News Scottish Government publishes Bill to remove requirement for corroboration Posted on June 21 2013 at 01:00 Rape Crisis Scotland welcomes Scottish Government plans to drop the requirement

& campaigns News Corroboration - Rape Crisis Scotland Briefing Paper News Corroboration - Rape Crisis Scotland Briefing Paper Posted on September 17 2012 at 01:00 In July 2012, the Scottish Government issued a

& campaigns News Corroboration News Corroboration Posted on September 4 2012 at 01:00 Rape Crisis Scotland welcomes the Scottish Government's proposal to end the requirement for corroboration in Scotland. You can download

that the requirement for corroboration is archaic and medieval, Declaring that it has no place in a modern criminal justice system, Lord Carloway calls for its immediate abolition. Yet, owing to the requirement and definition in Scots Law of

within the current law on corroboration, which has developed through the Appeal Court, arguments that have been successful as to what amounts to corroboration in relation to, for example, proof of rape. We recently had a case where the

the requirement for corroboration and whether adverse inference from an accused’s silence should be allowed. This briefing paper focuses on corroboration and adverse inference, two issues which have a particular impact in sexual offence

Bonomy review on Post Corroboration Safeguards (2014) Briefing on the Post Corroboration Safeguards Review Consultation Paper November 2014 Background Information In November 2010, the Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill asked Lord Carloway

plans are in relation to the corroboration requirement? Yes. Does the government have any plans in addition to judicial directions to think more broadly about how to change public attitudes in Scotland to rape? I’ve made it very clear that I

This guest blog looks at survivors

of the requirement for corroboration. National Coordinator Sandie Barton said: "Too many survivors of sexual crime have been denied access to justice because of the requirement for corroboration.  Over the years many survivors have