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Title:Accomplice evidence in zambia: the need for reform
Author:Coldham, SimonISNI
Year:1983
Periodical:Zambia Law Journal
Volume:15
Pages:60-69
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Zambia
Central Africa
Subjects:criminal procedure
offenders
law
criminal law
crime
Abstract:This article argues that the law in Zambia relating to uncorroborated accomplice evidence has departed from English law on the subject and made it more difficult for the State to obtain a conviction. It has done this partly be requiring 'special and compelling grounds' to support a conviction on such evidence and partly by extending the corroboration rules beyond accomplices to tainted witnesses, indeed to witnesses with any possible bias. It is ironic that this should happen at a time when the weight of academic and judicial opinion in England is moving the other way. Notes, ref.
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