Where identification evidence (including voice identification) is challenged on the basis that the witness is lying rather than honestly mistaken, the character of the evidence as identification evidence does not give rise to the need for a Domican warning. The need for such a warning arises from the risk of honest but mistaken identification, not from challenges to the witness's honesty, which are matters within the province of the jury. The trial judge's obligation is to give directions appropriate to the actual nature of the challenge to the evidence.
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