All the sections Flashcards
ss12-20
PART 2.1 - WITNESSES
Division 1 - Competence and compellability of witnesses
12. Competence and compellability
13. Competence: lack of capacity
14. Compellability: reduced capacity
15. Compellability: Sovereign and others
16. Competence and compellability: judges and jurors
17. Competence and compellability: defendants in criminal proceedings
18. Compellability of spouses and others in criminal proceedings generally
19. Compellability of spouses and others in certain criminal proceedings
20. Comment on failure to give evidence
ss21-25
Division 2 - Oaths and affirmations
- Sworn evidence to be on oath or affirmation
- Interpreters to act on oath or affirmation
- Choice of oath or affirmation
- Requirements for oaths
24A. Alternative oath - Rights to make unsworn statements unaffected
ss26-32
Division 3 - General rules about giving evidence
- Court’s control over questioning of witnesses
- Parties may question witnesses
- Order of examination in chief, cross-examination and re-examination
- Manner and form of questioning witnesses and their responses
- Interpreters
- Deaf and mute witnesses
- Attempts to revive memory in court
- Evidence given by police officers
- Attempts to revive memory out of court
- Effect of calling for production of documents
- Person may be examined without subpoena or other process
ss37, 38, 39
Leading, adverse and re-ex Division 4 - Examination in chief and re-examination
- Leading questions
- Unfavourable witnesses
- Limits on re-examination
ss40-46
Division 5 - Cross-examination
- Witness called in error
- Improper questions
- Leading questions
- Prior inconsistent statements of witnesses
- Previous representations of other persons
- Production of documents
- Leave to recall witnesses
ss47-51
PART 2.2 - DOCUMENTS
- Definitions
- Proof of contents of documents
- Documents in foreign countries
- Proof of voluminous or complex documents
- Original document rule abolished
ss52-54
PART 2.3 - OTHER EVIDENCE
- Adducing of other evidence not affected
- Views
- Views to be evidence
ss55-58
PART 3.1 - RELEVANCE
- Relevant evidence
- Relevant evidence to be admissible
- Provisional relevance
- Inferences as to relevance
ss59-61
Division 1 - The hearsay rule
- The hearsay rule–exclusion of hearsay evidence
- Exception: evidence relevant for a non-hearsay purpose
- Exceptions to the hearsay rule dependent on competency
ss62-68
Division 2 - “First-hand” hearsay
- Restriction to “first-hand” hearsay
- Exception: civil proceedings if maker not available
- Exception: civil proceedings if maker available
- Exception: criminal proceedings if maker not available
- Exception: criminal proceedings if maker available
66A. Exception: contemporaneous statements about a person’s health etc - Notice to be given
- Objections to tender of hearsay evidence in civil proceedings if maker available
ss69-75
Division 3 - Other exceptions to the hearsay rule
- Exception: business records
- Exception: contents of tags, labels and writing
- Exception: electronic communications
- Exception: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional laws and customs
- Exception: reputation as to relationships and age
- Exception: reputation of public or general rights
- Exception: interlocutory proceedings
ss76-80
PART 3.3 - OPINION
- The opinion rule
- Exception: evidence relevant otherwise than as opinion evidence
- Exception: lay opinions
78A. Exception: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional laws and customs - Exception: opinions based on specialised knowledge
- Ultimate issue and common knowledge rules abolished
ss81-90
PART 3.4 - ADMISSIONS
81. Hearsay and opinion rules: exception for admissions and related representations
82. Exclusion of evidence of admissions that is not first-hand
83. Exclusion of evidence of admissions as against third parties
84. Exclusion of admissions influenced by violence and certain other conduct
85. Criminal proceedings: reliability of admissions by defendants
86. Exclusion of records of oral questioning
87. Admissions made with authority
88. Proof of admissions
89. Evidence of silence generally
89A. Evidence of silence in criminal proceedings for serious indictable offences
90. Discretion to exclude admissions
ss91-93
PART 3.5 - EVIDENCE OF JUDGMENTS AND CONVICTIONS
- Exclusion of evidence of judgments and convictions
- Exceptions
- Savings
ss94-101
PART 3.6 - TENDENCY AND COINCIDENCE
- Application
- Use of evidence for other purposes
- Failure to act
- The tendency rule
97A. Admissibility of tendency evidence in proceedings involving child sexual offences - The coincidence rule
- Requirements for notices
- Court may dispense with notice requirements
- Further restrictions on tendency evidence and coincidence evidence adduced by prosecution