Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Cessation of application of Indian Evidence Act
(1) From and after the commencement of this Act the Evidence Act, 1872, India shall cease to extend or apply to Kenya. (2) For the…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Saving for other laws
Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, nothing in this Act shall be deemed to derogate from the provisions of any other…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Costs
(1) The costs of any application to a court under or for the purposes of this Chapter of this Act and the costs of anything done o…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Warrant to investigate
(1) Where it is proved on oath to a judge or magistrate that in fact, or according to reasonable suspicion, the inspection of any…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Inspection of bankers’ books
(1) On the application of any party to proceedings a court may order that such party be at liberty to inspect and take copies of a…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Restriction on compelling production of banker’s book
A banker or officer of a bank shall not, in any proceedings to which the bank is not a party, be compellable to produce any banker…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Proof and verification of copy
(1) A copy of an entry in a banker’s book shall not be received in evidence under section 176 of this Act unless it be first prove…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Mode of proof of entries in bankers’ books
Subject to the provisions of this Chapter of this Act, a copy of any entry in a banker’s book shall in all legal proceedings be re…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Effect of improper admission or rejection
The improper admission or rejection of evidence shall not of itself be ground for a new trial or for reversal of any decision in a…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Deleted by Act No. 7 of 2007, Sch.
Deleted by Act No. 7 of 2007, Sch.
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Extended powers of court for purpose of obtaining proper evidence
(1) A judge or magistrate may, in order to discover or to obtain proper evidence, ask any question he pleases, in any form, at any…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Consequence of refusal to produce document in answer to notice
When a party refuses to produce a document for which he has had notice to produce, he cannot afterwards use the document as eviden…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Document produced in answer to notice to be given as evidence if required
When a party calls for a document which he has given the other party notice to produce, and such document is produced and inspecte…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Production of documents of doubtful admissibility
(1) A witness summoned to produce a document shall, if it is in his possession or power, bring it to court notwithstanding any obj…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Rights of adverse party as to contemporaneous writing
Any writing referred to in section 167 or section 168 of this Act shall be produced and shown to the adverse party if he requires…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Reference to accurate contemporaneous record though facts themselves not specifically recalled
A witness may testify to facts mentioned in any such writing as is referred to in section 167 of this Act although he has no speci…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Refreshing memory by reference to contemporaneous writing
(1) A witness may, while under examination, refresh his memory by referring to any writing made by himself at the time of the tran…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Evidence to test statement of person not available as witness
Whenever any statement admissible under section 33 or section 34 of this Act is proved, all matters which might have been proved i…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Proof of consistency by former statements
In order to show that the testimony of a witness is consistent any former statement made by such witness, whether written or oral,…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Circumstantial questions to confirm evidence
When a witness the truthfulness of whose evidence it is intended to confirm gives evidence of any fact, he may be questioned as to…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Evidence to impeach the credit of a witness
(1) The credit of a witness may be impeached in the following ways by the adverse party, or, with the consent of the court, by the…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Exclusion of evidence to contradict a witness
When a witness has been asked and has answered any question which is relevant to the proceedings only in so far as it tends to sha…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Discretion to allow cross-examination of own witness
The court may, in its discretion, permit the person who calls a witness to put any questions to him which might be put in cross-ex…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Insulting or annoying questions
The court shall forbid any question which appears to it to be intended to insult or annoy, or which, though proper in itself, appe…
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