Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 20

20 Cross-examination as to credit

(1) The court may disallow a question as to credit put to a witness in cross-examination, or inform the witness the question need not be answered, if the court considers an admission of the question’s truth would not materially impair confidence in the reliability of the witness’s evidence.

(2) In this section—

"question as to credit" , for a witness, means a question that is not relevant to the proceeding except that an admission of the question’s truth may affect the witness’s credit by injuring the witness’s character.