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LUNACY REGULATION (IRELAND) ACT 1871 - SECT 28

Witnesses may be cross-examined orally.

28. Every person giving evidence by affidavit shall be liable to oral
cross-examination by or before [the High Court], or the master, in the same
manner as if the evidence given by him in his affidavit had been given by him
orally before [the High Court], or the master, and after cross-examination may
be re-examined orally by or on behalf of the person filing the affidavit; and
every person giving evidence by affidavit shall be bound to attend before [the
High Court], or the master, to be so cross-examined and re-examined, upon
receiving due and proper notice and payment or tender of his reasonable
expenses, in like manner as if he had been duly served with a writ or subp-na
ad testificandum before an examiner of [the High Court]; and the expenses
attending on such cross-examination and re-examination shall be paid in the
first instance by the parties respectively, in like manner as if the witness
cross-examined were the witness of the party cross-examining, and shall on
taxation be ultimately borne and paid by the estate, or the parties
respectively, or one of them, as [the High Court], or the master shall direct.


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