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Compelling person present in Court to give evidence
Cap. 95, s. 78 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Any person present in a court or judge’s chambers or at a preliminary inquiry into an indictable offence whether a party to the cause or matter or not, may be called upon and compelled by the court, judge or magistrate to give evidence and produce any document then and there in his actual possession or in his power in the same manner and subject to the same rules as if he had been summoned to attend and give evidence or to produce the document,
and may be punished in like manner for any refusal to obey the order of the court.
Compelling per- son present in
(2) If any person being in a court or judge’s chambers or at a preliminary inquiry into an indictable offence, refuses to be sworn or to give evidence or to answer any question which the court directs him to answer, the court, judge or magistrate may from time to time commit him to prison without bail for any term not exceeding one week in respect of any one refusal.
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