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EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 46 Leave to recall witnesses

EVIDENCE ACT 1995 - SECT 46

Leave to recall witnesses

  (1)   The court may give leave to a party to recall a witness to give evidence about a matter raised by evidence adduced by another party, being a matter on which the witness was not cross - examined, if the evidence concerned has been admitted and:

  (a)   it contradicts evidence about the matter given by the witness in examination in chief; or

  (b)   the witness could have given evidence about the matter in examination in chief.

  (2)   A reference in this section to a matter raised by evidence adduced by another party includes a reference to an inference drawn from, or that the party intends to draw from, that evidence.