provisions related to corroboration removed. By 2022, two thirds of Scottish judges were of the opinion when consulted that corroboration should be abolished, both for the complexity of its rules, and for the problems posed in rape or domestic abuse cases involving women or children. The minority still supported corroboration retention as an important protection.

Corroboration in modern practice

Corroboration is required in Scots law as the evidence of one witness, however credible, is not sufficient to prove a charge against

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