Payment of witnesses in civil proceedings
 


Project No. 83

Commenced: 1986
Completed: 1989

In 1986, the Commission was asked to consider and report on the law and practice relating to the payment of compensation in respect of persons who appear, or who are required or undertake to appear, as witnesses in, or who are required or undertake to produce any document or thing in, a civil or other legal proceeding but excluding criminal proceedings.