Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Evidence Act 1958 - SECT 32

Compellability of parties and witnesses regarding evidence relating to or establishing adultery

32. Compellability of parties and witnesses regarding evidence relating to or
establishing adultery

Notwithstanding anything in any Act or any rule of law, in any proceedings-

   (a)  a party shall not be entitled to refuse to answer any interrogatory or
        to give discovery of documents;

   (b)  a witness, whether a party or not, shall not be entitled to refuse to
        answer any question, whether relevant to any issue or relating to
        credit merely-

on the ground solely that such answer or discovery would or might relate to,
or would tend or might tend to establish, adultery by that party or that
witness, or by any other person with that party or that witness (as the case
may be).