Example sentences of "give evidence " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CHARGE of rape on a mentally handicapped girl was dropped yesterday after a judge ruled she could not give evidence against her alleged attacker . |
| 2 | The group , chaired by Judge Thomas Pigot , QC , a senior Old Bailey judge , recommends that the rule that children under seven or eight should not give evidence , laid down in a string of cases , should be abolished . |
| 3 | This is ‘ practical ’ in the sense that the prosecution need not rely on members of the public to come forward and give evidence , which there is often a reluctance to do . |
| 4 | It may give evidence of trade , since coins were used as objects of trade . |
| 5 | A JUDGE 'S refusal to let undercover police officers give evidence behind a screen at the trial of 19 Manchester United fans was upheld in the High Court yesterday . |
| 6 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 7 | ‘ Stand ’ is proved by the observations of the officer concerned and although it is not necessary to prove the vehicle had been in the offending position for a particular period of time the court may find it helpful if the officer could give evidence , ‘ The vehicle was parked on Bradford Road from 20.00 hours to 21.00 hours etc . ’ |
| 8 | The recipient could also give evidence that she recognised the voice or tape recorded the offender . |
| 9 | The receiver of the call could give evidence that the grossly offensive message was received on a public telephone . |
| 10 | ‘ That you ’ The officer obstructed should give evidence to identify the accused . |
| 11 | If there 's an inquest , Meredith thought , he ought to come forward and give evidence . |
| 12 | Mrs Bridger , of Roman Way , Farnham , did not give evidence . |
| 13 | In fact , Coetzee has just been granted immunity to return to South Africa for three weeks : he will give evidence in support of the Mxenge family 's case against the Minister of Law and Order , which begins on April 15 . |
| 14 | that the witnesses to be examined may give evidence material to the issue ; |
| 15 | To this there is one exception , to comply with Article 9 of the Convention ; an order may be made that a person should give evidence otherwise than on oath where this is asked for by the requesting court . |
| 16 | Witnesses do not give evidence on oath . |
| 17 | L unsuccessfully submitted that there was no case to answer and did not give evidence . |
| 18 | TJ , who did not give evidence , was convicted and appealed , submitting that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong to rule that there was no breach of the Code ; ( 2 ) the judge wrongly told the jury that there had been no breach , thus undermining the defence speech to the jury on this point ; ( 3 ) the evidence was unsafe and unsatisfactory having regard to the evidence given by D ; and the judge should have withdrawn the case from the jury . |
| 19 | Basically , the plot was to get me to bribe Murrin so he would give evidence helpful to me in my libel case against the Sunday Times . |
| 20 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 21 | The accused , if committed , is given copies of the depositions , but is not provided with copies of the statements taken by the police except when the Crown intends to call a witness who did not give evidence at the preliminary inquiry , in which case the Crown will serve the defence with a notice of intention and a copy of the witness 's statement . |
| 22 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 23 | No one , he submitted , can give evidence ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ if he is no longer such an officer or servant . |
| 24 | The question was whether on any construction of section 9(4) the court would have power to order an officer or servant of the Crown currently working in the Ministry of Defence to produce or give evidence of the contents of these documents . |
| 25 | Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so . |
| 26 | The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily . |
| 27 | The appellant did not give evidence . |
| 28 | The appellant did not give evidence on his own behalf . |
| 29 | At all events in the present case the question whether , in the light of Price 's subsequent retraction before the magistrate , his Swedish evidence was sufficient to justify the applicant 's committal , was essentially a matter for the decision of the magistrate , who had heard Price give evidence before him . |
| 30 | The plaintiff himself did not give evidence , so there was no evidence ( as opposed to submissions ) as to what the plaintiff would have done had he known the full facts . |