Criminal Procedure Code · s 435

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435.
Evidence
(1) For the purposes of this Chapter, the Court of Appeal may -
(a) order the production of any document, exhibit or other thing connected with the proceedings, the production of which appears to it to be necessary for the determination of the case;
(b) order any witness who would have been a compellable witness in the proceedings from which the appeal lies to attend for examination and be examined before the Court of Appeal, whether or not he was called in those proceedings; and
(c)
subject to subsection (3), receive the evidence, if tendered, of any witness.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (I), where evidence is tendered to the Court of Appeal thereunder it shall, unless it is satisfied that the evidence, if received, would not afford any ground for allowing the appeal, exercise its powers of receiving it if -
(a) it appears to it that the evidence is likely to be credible and would have been admissible in the proceedings from which the appeal lies on an issue which is the subject of the appeal; and
(b) it is satisfied that it was not adduced in those proceedings but that there is a reasonable explanation for the failure to adduce it.
(3) Subsection (l)(c) applies to any witness (including the appellant) who is competent but not compellable, and applies also to the appellant's husband or wife where the appellant makes an application for that purpose and the evidence of the husband or wife could not have been given in the proceedings from which the appeal lies except on such an application.
(4) For the purposes of this Chapter, the Court of Appeal may order the examination of any witness whose attendance might be required under subsection (I)@) to be conducted, in manner provided by rules and orders made under section 441, before any Judge or other person appointed by the Court of Appeal for the purpose, and allow the admission of any depositions so taken as evidence before the Court of Appeal.

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s 435Evidence

(1)

For the purposes of this Chapter, the Court of Appeal may -

(a)

order the production of any document, exhibit or other thing connected with the proceedings, the production of which appears to it to be necessary for the determination of the case;

(b)

order any witness who would have been a compellable witness in the proceedings from which the appeal lies to attend for examination and be examined before the Court of Appeal, whether or not he was called in those proceedings; and

(c)

subject to subsection (3), receive the evidence, if tendered, of any witness.

(2)

Without prejudice to subsection (I), where evidence is tendered to the Court of Appeal thereunder it shall, unless it is satisfied that the evidence, if received, would not afford any ground for allowing the appeal, exercise its powers of receiving it if -

(a)

it appears to it that the evidence is likely to be credible and would have been admissible in the proceedings from which the appeal lies on an issue which is the subject of the appeal; and

(b)

it is satisfied that it was not adduced in those proceedings but that there is a reasonable explanation for the failure to adduce it.

(3)

Subsection (l)(c) applies to any witness (including the appellant) who is competent but not compellable, and applies also to the appellant's husband or wife where the appellant makes an application for that purpose and the evidence of the husband or wife could not have been given in the proceedings from which the appeal lies except on such an application.

(4)

For the purposes of this Chapter, the Court of Appeal may order the examination of any witness whose attendance might be required under subsection (I)@) to be conducted, in manner provided by rules and orders made under section 441, before any Judge or other person appointed by the Court of Appeal for the purpose, and allow the admission of any depositions so taken as evidence before the Court of Appeal.