New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT 1899 - SECT 77

77 Witnesses to be examined in open Court

Subject to the rules hereunder the witnesses in all proceedings before the Court where their attendance can be had shall be sworn and examined orally in open Court
Provided that the parties may verify their respective cases in whole or in part by affidavit but so that the deponent in every such affidavit may on the application of the opposite party or by direction of the Court be cross-examined orally in open Court and thereafter may be re-examined orally in open Court.