SECOND EDITION LAWS OF EVIDENCE
ALTERATION PREDICTED CONFERENCE OF WITNESSES (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this ih.y. Addressing the I,aw Society conference on nisi prtu.s, Mr. (',. 11..' Weston, New Plymouth, said it was possible that the present rigid system oi ! eliciting the evidence of -witnesses by questions nw] answers would be uiudificd in future. In ooniponsalioii and other similar cases where oxpert wit ne : .sos were engaged the system .generally proved inadequate to arrive at wliilT witnesses desired to convey. It would be more satisfactory it' mavlei s at issti!' could be infoi nially di -> cussed af' n kind of round-table conference presided over by the .judge. with counsel and all expei'l witnesses present and entitled to question o.no another without restraint.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17241, 24 April 1930, Page 8
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