corroboration

Yet, he said, the expert report had stated the story had no corroboration.

"Until that point, I didn't even know what corroboration meant," Ms Bryson said.

“Everything alleged in the indictment was easily provable. And as the report makes clear virtually every assertion by the government had layers of corroboration. A conviction was certain.”

"The partners strongly believe that many of the allegations originate from two disgruntled employees, without objective basis or corroboration."

That would be presented as a counter balance to the abolition of not proven and recent changes on the rules on corroboration.