Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 2011 - SECT 46

    (1)     The court may give leave to a party to recall a witness to give evidence about a matter raised by evidence presented by another party, and on which the witness was not cross-examined, if the evidence has been admitted and—

        (a)     it contradicts evidence about the matter given by the witness in examination-in-chief; or

        (b)     the witness could have given evidence about the matter in examination-in-chief.

    (2)     A reference in this section to a matter raised by evidence presented by another party includes a reference to an inference drawn from, or that the party intends to draw from, the evidence.