At the hearing of the above appeal, it transpired that there are conflicting decisions of the Court of Appeal on law and evidence in considering consequences that arise following non-compliance by a trial Court in the conduct of a voire dire examination under section 127(2) of the Evidence Act [Cap 6 R.E. 2002]. Namely, whether as a consequence thereof, it should be treated as unsworn evidence of a child, which requires corroboration to sustain a conviction or in the inverse or it is rendered as not good evidence and which had to be discarded or discounted or expunged from the record.

