Sentences with phrase «witnesses under oath»

The history of the section indicates that Parliament introduced these amendments in 1987 to alter the common law rule where only witnesses under oath could testify, in order to remove barriers preventing the mentally disabled from testifying.

Our attorney questions the other witnesses under oath and gathers medical data in a concise way.

But seriously it looks like Doug a couple of comments agrees with Monckton and myself that there should be a Royal Commission with rights to examine data and cross examine witnesses under oath.

I spoke to the attorney general who was handling these hearings, I asked her to compel these witnesses under oath where their funding was coming from

(a) For the purposes of any investigation of a charge filed under the authority contained in section 706, the Commission shall have authority to examine witnesses under oath and to require the production of documentary evidence relevant or material to the charge under investigation.

We can not have confidence in an investigation by the Metropolitan police; we can have confidence only in a full judicial inquiry with a judge who can take witnesses under oath, ask questions under oath, seek papers, and subpoena witnesses to appear.

Contrast that outcome with one where your guy or gal's attorney deposes the witness under oath, gets them to concede to your version of the facts then introduces the deposition as favorable evidence at trial.

Gathered necessary information for court appearances and testified as a witness under oath in court.

Not exact matches

In addition, Zuckerberg is a non-government witness, which Judiciary often does not require to go under oath.

The passage from Deuteronomy is talking about the court's punishment for a witness lying under oath.

To be unaware of the true dimensions of life, to be insensitive to the realities beyond your narrow little swath of existence, to talk to no one save the people who mirror your own prejudices back to you, to be the victim of your own narrow insecurity in life, this is to bear false witness just as surely as if you testified to the truth of a lie under oath.

The Christian head of one of the UK's largest sexual abuse survivors» groups has called on the Home Secretary to «disband» the panel investigating historical abuse and replace it with a new inquiry with extra powers that would compel witnesses to give evidence under oath.

Witnesses do not always tell the truth, they may lie under oath to protect someone (bias) and false witnesses obviously do not believe what they are abouWitnesses do not always tell the truth, they may lie under oath to protect someone (bias) and false witnesses obviously do not believe what they are abouwitnesses obviously do not believe what they are about to say.

Witnesses would be under oath and they're of course obligated by law to tell the truth, those who have been the ones who have perpetrated this smear campaign against one of the stellar companies in the country... I think they'll have an obligation then to explain themselves why they could not base their allegations on facts and what they've done to damage an industry.

Salisu's revelations were contained in a Statement of Witness / Accused, written under oath in the presence of investigators of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

NYPD cops have been caught «testilying» on more than two dozen occasions since January 2015 — with some giving inaccurate accounts about witness identifications and others falsely claiming under oath that they watched drug deals and other crimes happen, according to a report by the NY Times.

The accusations came from a witness who had previously lied under oath.

He was a witness in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan, where he denied under oath that he had any knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World, or that he knew Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of controversy.

«In the case of Baroness Warsi there hasn't been a judge - led inquiry with witnesses, taking evidence under oath, to get to all of the factual evidence behind her case.

A key prosecution witness in that case is Jona Rechnitz, who under oath said he had given cash to Astorino's campaign and offered to give Astorino a rolex watch.

The federal prosecutors ripped Kerik for backtracking under oath as a government witness in the 2012 Bronx perjury trial of contractors Frank and Peter DiTommaso.

Afterwards, federal prosecutors accused Halloran of committing perjury on the witness stand and Judge Kenneth Karas also said he doubted the pol's «candor» under oath.

Testimony is the verbal statement of a witness, under oath, to the judge or jury.

She found these facts after hearing the testimony of many witnesses, including the Dean of the School of Education, who testified under oath, that Paul Vallas cursory association with UCONN was not a «school leadership program» as that term is generally understood.

One witness asserted under oath that she affixed her signature to an essentially blank page that lacked the text contained in every other copy of the petition.

(b) If the respondent named in a charge filed under section 706 fails or refuses to comply with a demand of the Commission for permission to examine or to copy evidence in conformity with the provisions of section 709 (a), or if any person required to comply with the provisions of section 709 (c) or (d) fails or refuses to do so, or if any person fails or refuses to comply with a demand by the Commission to give testimony under oath, the United States district court for the district in which such person is found, resides, or transacts business, shall, upon application of the Commission, have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring him to comply with the provisions of section 709 (c) or (d) or to comply with the demand of the Commission, but the attendance of a witness may not be required outside the State where he is found, resides, or transacts business and the production of evidence may not be required outside the State where such evidence is kept.

A witness must sign documents to affirm or swear under oath what was witnessed.

All witnesses shall testify under oath or affirmation.

Vaughn, I wish I would be given a chance; to ask you 101 questions, when you are on a witness stand, under oath.

We may have to wait until we have him on the witness stand and under oath.

Expert witnesses testifying under oath in a courtroom is precisely what needs to happen.

Anyone with the least understanding of human nature knows that when big money [as in $ billions], reputations and careers are involved, the only way the truth can be extracted from the self - serving «good old boy» establishment is in an adversarial setting, where evidence and witnesses can be presented, and their statements cross-examined under oath.

The adversarial system of the criminal courts, with witnesses cross-examined under oath by well - informed counsel can highlight the holes in the science very well.

I expect that they do not understand that in a court of law the expert witnesses will be cross-examined under oath and under penalty of perjury.

[At the hearing] the assistant attorney general compelled all these witnesses to disclose all their funding sources under oath.

Many «climate skeptics» wonder why the defendants would want to get the complaint dismissed rather than put Mann through a trial in which he would have to take the witness stand and discuss his work under oath.

Picture the witnesses on both sides, and also Michael Mann under oath.

That's why I'm playing this one differently from the Maclean's case: Dr Mann will be on the witness stand under oath, and the lies that went unchallenged in the Big Climate echo chamber will not prove so easy to get away with.

As you know, legal maneuvering and the usual procedural folderol of the sclerotic US «justice» system has delayed my efforts to get Mann deposed, discovered, and for the first time in his life up on the witness stand, testifying about the «hockey stick» under oath.

However, defence counsel should not ask the witnesses if they believe the accused would lie under oath.199

We interview potential witnesses and depose potential defendants under oath.

Three general indicators of threshold reliability justifying admission of a statement include «(i) the statement is made under oath or affirmation following a warning on the significance of the oath and the availability of sanctions for giving a false statement; (ii) the statement is videotaped in its entirety; and (iii) the opposing party has a full opportunity to cross-examine the witness respecting the statement» (at para. 32).

I can also spend some time cross examining that witness on his or her understanding of what verification requires and on the concept of perjury (by answering interrogatories «under oath» the witness becomes subject to perjury if the answers are both material and knowingly false).

That way if the witness attempts to shift blame to his or her attorney, I can pull out the verification and show that the witness is being even more evasive by attempting the shift blame to the attorney for answers that witness verified under oath.

The Plaintiff brought an application to compel pre trial examination under oath of this witness but this was dismissed with the Court noting that a witness willing to speak through counsel is indeed being responsive.

Deposition: Oral testimony that is taken under oath in which one party presents questions to the other party or relevant witnesses.

Consequently, I find that his testimony on this point was evasive and lacked the candour that one rightfully expects of a witness testifying under oath or affirmation.

Testify: To give evidence as a witness, under oath.

Testimony: Evidence given under oath by a witness, as distinguished from evidence derived from written documents.

This is despite the fact that ICC Board member witnesses admitted under oath at Hair's tribunal hearing that the umpires» decisions at The Oval were entirely in accordance with the Laws of Cricket.