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Conditions for acting on the evidence of a single witness

Duty of a witness

Effect of a witness giving evidence to help a friend

Extent of the duty of the prosecution to call witnesses

Factors to be considered to allow a witness who has not given a witness statement to testify

How the courts should treat illiterate witnesses' testimony as to dates

Position of the law on the number of witnesses required to prove a case

Position of the law on the veracity of a witness alleged to have made contradictory statements

Position of the law where the evidence on oath of a witness is contradictory to a previous statement made by him

The principle that proof of an offence does not depend on the quantity of witnesses, but on the quality

The proper persons to appear as witnesses in matters relating to family issues and inheritance

The rule that where the witness of a party supports the evidence of that party’s opponent on a material issue, the party who called the witness should lose the contest on that material issue

Whether all competent witnesses are compellable

Whether a member of a family needs a power of attorney to testify on behalf of the family

Whether a party can impeach the credit of his opponent’s witness by calling witnesses to contradict him on irrelevant matters

Whether a party is a witness in his own cause

Whether a stranger to a family can give evidence in a land matter

Whether a trial court can accept the testimony of a witness to convict one accused and reject the testimony against another accused and acquit him in a joint trial on the same charge

Whether a trial court can call a witness after the close of evidence without the consent of the parties

Whether a witness can only testify to a matter within his personal knowledge

Whether a witness must be cross-examined before it can be said that he is not speaking the truth

Whether a witness needs a power of attorney to testify on behalf of a party

Whether a witness needs a power of attorney to testify on behalf of trustees of whom he is one

Whether a witness’s close affinity to a party disqualifies him as a witness

Whether a witness who gives a honest mistaken account of an incident can still be regarded as a truthful witness

Whether a witness who is a relative of the party is an interested person

Whether a witness whose evidence on oath is contradictory of a previous statement made by him whether sworn or not is not worthy of credit

Whether a witness whose evidence on oath is contradictory of a previous statement made by him whether sworn or not is worthy of credit

Whether evidence given by a witness on matters affecting his credit are material

Whether insanity renders a person an incompetent witness

Whether one witness is sufficient to prove a case

Whether parties are required to mount the witness box in respect of matters which are not in contention

Whether the court can act on the evidence of two witnesses who corroborate each other’s evidence in every material particular

Whether the court can compel a witness to testify

Whether the court can order the appearance of a witness

Whether the Court has an obligation to adjourn criminal proceedings indefinitely until the witnesses who disobeyed the summons of the court by disappearing were found

Whether the court has the power to examine the witnesses of the accused

Whether the court is entitled to reject the evidence of a witness merely because he is a relative of the party

Whether the court must arrest a witness who fails to appear in court

Whether the evidence of a sole witness is sufficient to ground a conviction

Whether the evidence of a witness who is not a hostile witness can be impeached

Whether the fact that a person is a witness for the prosecution makes him a person in authority

Whether the prosecution is bound to call every witness

Whether the prosecution is under a duty to call a particular witness

Whether the prosecution or the defence is entitled to examine or cross-examine a witness called by the judge

Whether the trial judge can call a witness not called by ether the prosecution or the defence and without the consent of either

Whether the trial judge must give reasons why he believes prosecution witnesses

Whether witnesses are counted

Who is an attesting witness?

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