Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 632

632 Corroboration

(1) A person may be convicted of an offence on the uncorroborated testimony of 1 witness, unless this Code expressly provides to the contrary.

Example—

See sections 52 (Sedition), 125 (Evidence on charge of perjury) and 195 (Evidence).

(2) On the trial of a person for an offence, a judge must not direct, warn or suggest to the jury—

(a) that the law regards any class of persons as unreliable witnesses; or

(b) in relation to the uncorroborated evidence of a witness—

(i) that it would be dangerous or unsafe to convict the defendant on the evidence; or

(ii) that the evidence should be scrutinised with great care.

Example—

See also the Evidence Act 1977 , sections 94A , 103ZZB , 132BAA and 132BA .

(3) Subsection (1) or (2) does not prevent a judge from making a comment on the evidence given in the trial that it is appropriate to make in the interests of justice.