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Effect of treating a witness as a hostile witness
Meaning of a hostile witness
Need for a judge to first of all to form an opinion that a witness is adverse to the party calling him before he can permit the party to treat him as hostile and to cross-examine him
Time to make an application to treat a witness as hostile
Whether a witness who has not yet entered the witness box to testify can be called an hostile witness
Whether or not a subsequent elaboration of an earlier statement made by a witness will warrant such witness to be considered a hostile witness
Whether the only basis for declaring a witness hostile is where there is a contradictory statement previously made by that witness
Whether the principle that where none of the prosecution's witnesses has been treated as a hostile witness, the court cannot accept the testimony of one witness and reject that of another is applicable in all cases
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