| 释义 |
evidence-in-chief
In court proceedings, the evidence given by a witness for the party who called him. Part 32 of the Civil Procedure Rules provides that where a witness is called to give evidence at trial, his witness statement shall stand as his evidence-in-chief unless the court orders otherwise. He may be cross-examined on his witness statement whether or not the statement or any part of it was referred to during his examination-in-chief. In criminal proceedings evidence-in-chief will nearly always take the form of live evidence in court. |