Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts Every witness under
cross-examination in any proceeding, civil or criminal, may be asked whether
he has made any former statement relative to the subject-matter of the
proceeding, and inconsistent with his present testimony, the circumstances of
the supposed statement being referred to sufficiently to designate the
particular occasion, and if he does not distinctly admit that he made such
statement, proof may be given that he did in fact make it.
The same course may be
taken with a witness upon his examination in chief or re-examination, if the
judge is of opinion that the witness is hostile to the party by whom he was
called and permits the question.
[Section 21 amended: No. 16 of 1913 s. 3.]