Accomplice's uncorroborated evidence key to judgment, writes Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs Correspondent.

It appears that prosecutions based on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice will fall.

Counsel for Gillane submitted that the conviction rested exclusively on the uncorroborated evidence of two people.

Pell's lawyers said the prosecution's case relied entirely on the " uncorroborated evidence" of one surviving complainant.