Sentences with phrase «witness box»

PM's former spin doctor is asked about NoW's use of private detectives and his affair with Rebekah Brooks, on first day in witness box

Likely provisions could include changes and extensions to pre-exiting special measures, such as the use of a screen around witness boxes and live video links.

«What I tried to do was contrast her character assassination with these very humane, very human emotions that had been flowing from the witness box,» she said.

During Wright's six days in the witness box at Duffy's fraud trial, it emerged that Novak was informed about Wright's plan to repay the expenses.

Like someone in the witness box, they are called to say what they have seen and heard and experienced.

But Mr Ayikoi Otoo said lawyers of the accused judges can seek clarification in court over this since most witnesses in courts are not allowed to mount the witness box in any wearable that can affect the process of seeking justice.

He argued that the lawyer could only raise any objection he had when he was to be put on oath while inside the witness box.

He argued that the EFCC could not put the lawyer in the witness box because the prosecution witness through which the document was tendered as an exhibit by the commission had informed the court that it was obtained through a search warrant.

As a result, the scheduled parade of Niagara County figures to the witness box is canceled, as is their testimony.

«The lawyer ought to enter the witness box to obey the court's order.

The recent overturning of Sheldon Silver's 2015 corruption conviction raises key questions for both the real estate industry and those who police it: Do landlords and developers have clearer guidelines on what counts as corruption, or will heightened scrutiny and a likely retrial only bring more of them into the witness box?

Lawyers for Jihad Chabaan, the Lebanese manager of Marwako facing trial for assaulting an employee, on Monday prayed the court for a recall of the victim into the witness box to cross-examine her on new evidence they have found.

Lassie, who was giving evidence before a coroner, Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, in Osogbo, on Monday, said from the witness box that the Chief Medical Director of Biket Hospital, Osogbo, Dr Adebisi Adenle, called him on the telephone on April 23 to tell him that Adeleke had died.

Led in evidence by the lead prosecuting counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), Nwachukwu, the GTBank official, who entered the witness box as a prosecution witness on Tuesday, confirmed that Saraki was keeping dollar, pounds sterling and naira accounts domiciled in the Ilorin, Kwara State branch of the GTB.

The senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue South, in the last National Assembly election, Comrade Daniel Onjeh has rubbished his opponent, David Mark's claim that he was never invited to testify from the witness box at the tribunal.

But Mark, while reacting to the story via his media aide refuted shying away from the witness box, saying that he was never invited.

DAILY POST had exclusively reported that Mark, who was dragged before a tribunal in Makurdi, Benue State by Onjeh over the outcome of the election had refused to testify from the witness box when he appeared at the tribunal in person on August 18.

In giving her judgment in the case, Her Lordship Barbara Ackah - Yensu pointed out that: «I find both 2nd and 3rd defendants, particularly Catherine Afeku, not to be credible witness and they mounted the witness box to tell the Court a pack of lies, and it is for this reason that I preferred the evidence of plaintiff that she never saw the company's regulations».

Invited into the witness box on Tuesday, the witness informed the court that receipts were issued for monies paid to him for printing jobs.

The decision to draw Mr. Afoko into the witness box became necessary following questions raised by Sammy Crabbe's lawyers over the capacity of one members of the party's disciplinary committee, Madam Gifty Kusi.

He urged the court to compel him to immediately mount the witness box to explain all he knew about the alleged illicit transactions.

However, when the matter came up for hearing on Tuesday, Odili was asked to enter the witness box to adopt his witness statement.

The leaping from the sack and back to the witness box, though, doesn't work as well as David Eldridge's uneven script (based on Hallie Rubenhold's book) would like, leaving the forward - thinking tale of a woman refusing to be judged as a man's property feeling rather rushed — another reason for the slightly under - served actors to be slightly out of breath.

Nick Petrov, in the witness box, waited for the next question.

Sometimes you'll find yourself dodging questions in the press room, or even the occasional cross-examination in the witness box.

Just like a student preparing to enter an examination hall, you need to prepare adequately before you enter the witness box.

Whichever the case, it is important you read the following before you enter that witness box (or witness stand) to testify:

They say the service will be more conciliatory since both solicitors will act for the same fee, there will be no witness box and the arbitration will take place in a neutral setting such as a hotel.

It also enables me to speak more convincingly in the witness box with the benefit of first hand experience.

For instance, flat - panel monitors sit at each desk, on the judge's bench and the witness box.

Like being called to the witness box, this is not for the feint hearted.

The lawyer is an officer of the court, and is not allowed to lie to the court, or to allow his client to lie to the court; if the client says «I done it» to the lawyer, the lawyer may demand that the prosecution provides strict proof of all their evidence - but he can't put his client in the witness box.

The Judge takes account not just of what is said, but also of how it is said, of what is not said, and of the body language and demeanour of the witness in the witness box.

To the left of the judge, in the witness box, stands a police investigator.

However, when an accused person freely chooses to take the witness box and testify, there is no further right to silence.

Once a witness is in the witness box, the judge allows the party that called the witness to question the witness, a process called «direct examination».

But for a toll - free call and subsequent formal complaint to the CPO made by a layperson (not by any of the many lawyers involved on one side or the other)-- he would still be proffering unchallenged, unqualified «expert» opinion evidence and making a nice living in the witness box.

Experts must be credible in the witness box.

Legally the accused has no obligation to step into the witness box.

Perjury: Perjury occurs when a person deliberately lies when they are in the witness box in a courtroom or when they swear that an affidavit is true when it is not true.

The witness box is a lonely place.

[243] It is a strange circumstance that defence counsel asks for an adverse inference that Dr. Cox would have given unfavourable opinion evidence to the plaintiff at the same time she says she did not ask Dr. Cox that same question in the witness box because she wasn't sure what his evidence would be.