Section 52Part 4 — Civil proceedings
Conviction as evidence in civil proceedings
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52. (1) In civil proceedings, the fact that a person has been convicted of an offence before any court in the Islands is, subject to subsection (3), admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving, where to do so is relevant to any issue in those proceedings, that the person committed the offence, whether the person was so convicted upon a plea of guilty or otherwise and whether or not the person is a party to the civil proceeding; but no conviction other than a subsisting one is admissible in evidence by virtue of this section.
In civil proceedings in which by virtue of this section a person is proved to have been convicted of an offence by any court in the Islands —
that person shall be taken to have committed that offence unless the contrary is proved; and
without prejudice to the reception of any other admissible evidence for the purpose of identifying the facts on which the conviction was based the contents of any document which is admissible as evidence of the conviction, and the contents of the information, complaint, indictment or charge-sheet on which the person was convicted, is admissible in evidence for that purpose.
Nothing in this section prejudices the operation of section 49 or of any other law whereby a conviction or a finding of fact in criminal proceedings is, for the purpose of any other proceedings, made conclusive evidence of any fact.
Where, in civil proceedings, the contents of a document are admissible in evidence by virtue of subsection (2), a copy of that document, or of the material