HEARING OF CIVIL PROCEEDINGS
1 — EVIDENCE
1 Oral evidence
1. (1) Unless otherwise agreed in writing by all of the parties to the proceeding, and subject to these Rules and the law of evidence, witnesses at the trial of any claim must be examined orally on oath in open Court.
(2) Despite sub-rule (1), the Court may at any time for such reasons as it thinks right order that a particular fact may be proved by affidavit, or that the affidavit of a witness may be read at the hearing or trial on such conditions as the Court thinks reasonable.
(3) An order may not be made authorising the evidence of a witness to be given by affidavit where it appears to the Court that another party bona fide requires the production of the witness for cross-examination, and that the witness can be produced.
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