Does the trial judge need to have given a warning to the jury to consider the risks of adopting the evidence of the witness?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Huenemann, 1993 CanLII 170 (BC CA):
40 On behalf of the appellant, it is argued that this was an inadequate direction, and that in the circumstances of this case the trial judge ought to have given the jury a warning such as described by Dickson J., as he then was, in Vetrovec v. The Queen, 1982 CanLII 20 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 811 at 831: ...a clear and sharp warning to attract the attention of the jury to the risks of adopting, without more, the evidence of the witness.
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