The 2008 Act gives effect to Article 11 of the 2000 Convention and Article 10 of the Second Additional Protocol. It \u00a0provides for a request to be made for a witness present in the State to give evidence by telephone in criminal proceedings in a designated state. The Act sets out the information to be included in such a request.<\/p>\n
If of the view that the witness is willing to give evidence by telephone link, the Minister may request that a judge of the District Court be nominated by the President of that Court to summon the witness to attend to give such evidence. The Act allows for the witness to confirm that s\/he is willing to give evidence by telephone link. The Act states that provisions as set out apply in relation to the taking of evidence.<\/p>\n\n
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Evidence from person in designated state The 2008 Act provides a procedure for obtaining evidence abroad for the purpose of criminal proceedings or a criminal investigation in the State. It is based on provisions contained in the Criminal Justice Act 1994. It provides that, where it appears to a judge of any court that a […]<\/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":[378],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848"}],"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=27848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30345,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions\/30345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}