EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 22

EVIDENCE ACT 1906 - SECT 22

22 .         Procedure for purposes of s. 21

                A witness under cross-examination, or a witness whom the judge, under the provisions of the last preceding section, has permitted to be examined by the party who called him as to previous statements inconsistent with his present testimony, may be questioned as to —

            (a)         a previous statement made or supposed to have been made by him in writing or reduced into writing; or

            (b)         evidence given or supposed to have been given by him before any justice,

                without such writing or the deposition of such witness being shown to him.

                But if it is intended to contradict him by such writing or deposition, his attention must, before such contradictory proof can be given, be called to those parts of the writing or deposition which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him.

                Provided that the judge may, at any time during the trial, require the writing or deposition to be produced for his inspection, and may thereupon make use of it for the purposes of the trial as he thinks fit.