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• 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.
• Cooke then said, " Nor is it in dispute that, if the meaning of the statutory language is sufficiently clear, the New Zealand Parliament can make a person compellable to answer questions on certain subjects from an official-again in the sense that a refusal to answer may result in penalties . " It was at this point, Cooke went on to make one of his most famous judicial comments,
• No such minister, priest, rabbi, or similar functionary shall disclose any communications made to him or her by any such person professing religious faith, seeking spiritual guidance, or seeking counseling, nor shall such minister, priest, rabbi, or similar functionary be competent or compellable to testify with reference to any such communication in any court ( O . C . G . A 24-5-502 ).
• In " R v . Shaw " ( 1834 ) 6 C & P 392, a witness who had taken an oath not to reveal a statement which had been made to him by the prisoner, was ordered to reveal it . " Everybody ", said Mr . Justice Patteson, who tried the case, " except counsel and attorneys, is compellable to reveal what they may have heard ."