Writ of subpoena

(1) Subject to rules of court, a writ of subpoena ad testificandum or a writ of subpoena duces tecum or a writ of subpoena ad testificandum et duces tecum may issue out of the Court in the manner and form in which any such writ is issued in proceedings in the High Court of Justice in England to compel the attendance before any court, judge, justice or other judicature, or before any arbitrator or referee, or before any arbitrator or umpire appointed under the Arbitration Act or any other Act, of a witness wherever he may be within Belize. (2) If any person served in any cause or matter with any writ of subpoena refuses or neglects to attend the Court as a witness, or to produce any document or documents in his possession, 43 custody or power or to attend the Court as a witness and produce any document or documents in his possession, custody or power, pursuant to any such subpoena, the Court or a judge may punish such person in a summary way by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months. (3) Nothing contained in this section shall affect or abridge the right of any party in such cause or matter to recover any special damages such party sustains by reason of the person served with any subpoena failing to attend the Court as a witness, or to produce such document or documents or to attend the Court as a witness and produce such document or documents pursuant to any such subpoena. CAP. 125.