He explained to the committee that he“could find no evidence that in Scotland, which is the only country in the world that has a rule on corroboration across the board, there is a lower miscarriage of justice rate than in any other country in the civilised world—and nobody suggested to us that it has.”He went on to explain:“We looked at the other side of the coin and asked whether corroboration is actually impeding justice, and we concluded that that is exactly what it is doing in cases in which there is a victim of crime and coincidentally there does not happen to be corroboration.”