Section 50Part 4 — Civil proceedings
Admissibility of evidence as to credibility of maker, etc., of certain statements
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50. Subject to Rules of Court, where, in any civil proceedings, a statement made by a person who is not called as a witness in those proceedings is given in evidence by virtue of section 45 —
any evidence which, if that person had been so called, would be admissible for the purpose of destroying or supporting that person’s credibility as a witness is admissible for that purpose in those proceedings; and
evidence tending to prove that, whether before or after the person made that statement, that person made (whether orally or in a document or otherwise) another statement inconsistent therewith is admissible for the purpose of showing that the person has contradicted themselves: Provided that nothing in this section shall enable evidence to be given of any matter of which, if the person in question had been called as a witness and had denied that matter in cross-examination, evidence could not have been adduced by the cross- examining party.