CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT - Effect of failure to call both the recorder and interpreter of a confessional statement to give evidence in Court
HELD:
"My Lords, there is no doubt that the law is that failure to call the interpreter of a confessional Statement as well as the person who recorded the statement as witnesses renders the confessional Statement inadmissible in Court.
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