LAW OF EVIDENCE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1945, Page 7

LAW OF EVIDENCE

CHEAPER LEGAL PROCESS Parliamentary Reporter. WELLINGTON, this day. English amendments to facilitate the giving of evidence in certain instances are given effect to in the Evidence Amendment Bill, which was introduced into the House of Representatives last night. The Attorney-General, Mr. Mason, said the measure would attempt to cheapen legal processes by providing that one did not have, to go so far afield to secure proofs in certain cases. The law of evidence, said the Minister, was largely a collection of rules saying that certain types of evidences might not be admitted ot given in a certain way. He suggested that the main interest in the bill was a clause referring to servicemen overseas. There had been certain war regulations to pi ovide f° r the witnessing of documents when a man was serving overseas. Some cf those provisions would require their validity to be permanently established, and, as it was natuiallj desired to abolish the war regulations, the provisions must come under the power of a statute. The bill was read a second time pro forma and referred to the , statutes Revision Committee.