Children under 14 years may give evidence otherwise than under oath or affirmation if the court is satisfied that he or she is capable of giving an intelligible account of events that are relevant to the proceedings.\u00a0 A person whose evidence may be received as above, who gives evidence, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, is guilty of an offence.\u00a0 The same provisions apply to a person with a mental handicap.<\/p>\n
The requirements that formerly existed that a jury must be warned about the danger of convicting the accused on the uncorroborated evidence of a child was abolished in relation to cases where the warning is required only by reason that the evidence is that of a child.\u00a0 However, the judge may in his discretion having regard to all the circumstances give the warning.\u00a0 No particular form of words is necessary.<\/p>\n
In criminal proceedings, under the Extradition Act, a person other than the accused may with leave the court, give evidence through a live video link.<\/p>\n
Where documents are allowed as evidence, information may be given regardless of whether the documents still exist by producing a copy of the material part of the authenticated in such manner as the court approves.<\/p>\n\n
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Admission of Documents The Criminal Evidence Act 1992 provides for the admission of a range of documents and other evidence that would constitute inadmissible hearsay evidence, but for the legislation.\u00a0 They are admitted as proof\/evidence in criminal cases. Certain records and documents are admissible as proof of the facts in them in criminal proceedings as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23812,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/23812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}