Bonomy will head group to look at alternative safeguards
FORMeR high Court judge, lord Bonomy, will lead a group looking at alternative safeguards to corroboration.
They will look at ways of altering Scots law to protect victims against miscarriages of justice.
The Scottish Government has already proposed raising the number of jurors required to deliver a guilty verdict from eight to ten, out of 15.
lord Bonomy has served as a judge of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
he was appointed as a senator of the College of Justice in 1997. In 2001, he carried out a review of practices and procedures in the high Court of Justiciary which led to significant reforms to high Court practices.
The group will seek a wide range of views on what additional changes might be required.
The Scottish Government said the group will consider whether a formal test for sufficient supporting evidence should be introduced, the use of confession evidence, circumstances where evidence should be excluded, and dock identification.
Their remit will also include submissions of no case to answer at the end of the prosecution case, whether a judge should be able to remove a case on the basis that no reasonable jury could be expected to convict, the directions a judge might give a jury, and changes to summary proceedings.