| There was no other way of eliciting this evidence because the maker of the statements was not a compellable witness for the co-defendant. |
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| At the date of the appellant's trial he was a compellable witness for the defence and there is no reason to believe he was unavailable. |
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| He does not wish to attend court in England and is not a compellable witness. |
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| I would remind the committee that in half those states there is compellable legislation. |
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| Under section 25 of the Act the spouse of a person is a compellable witness as is a parent or guardian of a minor. |
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| Compelled witness testimony at the investigative stage is new to Canadian criminal law but witnesses have always been compellable at trial. |
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| The amendment also states that the special advocate is not a compellable witness in any proceeding. |
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| Clause 53 adds a new section to the CCRA stating that members of the NPB are not competent or compellable witnesses in any civil proceeding relating to information learned in the course of their duties. |
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| The Act will provide immunity for the Auditor General from criminal and civil proceedings, and protection from being a compellable witness, for actions taken in the performance of his or her statutory duties. |
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| The spouse of an accused party is not generally compellable to give evidence against him. |
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| The issue before the Court was whether the alleged victim, Mr. McKnight, was both a competent and compellable witness for the prosecution against his spouse. |
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| Pact-generated obligations are both adventitious, or based upon some antecedent human deed responding to circumstance, and perfect in the sense of specific and compellable. |
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| With respect to investigative hearings, that we compel witnesses to testify at the investigative stage is new to criminal law, but witnesses have always been compellable at trial. |
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| The Constitution and the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act provide that an accused person is competent but not compellable to testify in his trial. |
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| There is no legislation which clearly states that a judicial officer is not a compellable witness in respect of information he got through the performance of his duties. |
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| I've been looking for a mechanism, either amendments to the code, amendments to the Canada Evidence Act, that would make any information that they gave not compellable, but admissible if it was given voluntarily. |
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| We have a tolerance for detention without trial, without access to the courts, with a very high reliance on ministerial discretion which is neither compellable nor reviewable. |
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