New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 1986 - SECT 294AA

294AA Direction to be given by Judge in relation to complainants' evidence

(1) A judge in any proceedings to which this Division applies must not direct a jury, or make any suggestion to a jury, that complainants as a class are unreliable witnesses.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), that subsection prohibits a direction to a jury of the danger of convicting on the uncorroborated evidence of any complainant.

(3) Sections 164 and 165 of the Evidence Act 1995 are subject to this section.