Section 632(3) of the Criminal Code (Qld) prohibits only warnings or suggestions about the content of the law — that is, suggestions that the law assumes a witness to be unreliable by reason of class membership. A trial judge may comment on the demeanour and difficulties of a specific Indigenous witness in expressing evidence, including by reference to cultural characteristics shared with other Indigenous persons, provided the comment does not suggest the law regards Indigenous persons as unreliable witnesses. The question of whether s 632(3) is limited to cases involving uncorroborated testimony of a single witness was left open.
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