| 单词 | hostile witness |
| 释义 | hostile witness hostile witness a witness expected to give testimony favourable to the examiner but who in fact begins to give testimony not only unhelpful to the case but directed against it. In general, a person called as a witness may not be CROSS-EXAMINED by the party calling him. However, where a witness in the EXAMINATION IN CHIEF demon- strates hostility to the party who called him, that witness may, with the leave of the judge, be cross-examined by the party calling him. A witness is not to be regarded as hostile by reason only of the fact that he gives evidence unfavourable to the party calling him.This phrase has no technical meaning in Scotland, the ADVOCATE or SOLICITOR being free to challenge a witness he himself has called, without the leave of the court. |
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