compellable witness การใช้

This act amended the law such that spouses and civil partners of an accused person in Scotland, are competent and compellable witnesses for the prosecution.
However, in " Hoskyn v Metropolitan Police Commissioner " ( 1978 ) the House of Lords overruled " Lapworth ", ending the personal violence exception in favour of spouses being competent but not compellable witnesses for the prosecution in all cases.
Distinguishing " Leach ", the Court of Criminal Appeal held in " R v Lapworth " ( 1930 ) that spouses were nevertheless compellable witnesses for the prosecution in cases of personal violence, on the basis that the common law position prior to the 1898 Act had not been unaffected by its entry into law.
A justice of the peace, in making a determination as to whether there is reasonable cause to believe that someone is apparently suffering from a mental disorder of the sort described in section 16, is performing a judicial function and, as such, is not a compellable witness where summonsed to testify at a coroner's inquest.