Hong Kong Ordinances

EVIDENCE ORDINANCE - SECT 12

Discrediting a witness

A party producing a witness in any proceedings shall not be allowed to impeach
his credit by general evidence of bad character, but he may, in case the
witness, in the opinion of the court, proves adverse, contradict him by other
evidence or, by leave of the court, prove that he has made at other times a
statement inconsistent with his present testimony, but, before such
last-mentioned proof can be given, the circumstances of the supposed
statement, sufficient to designate the particular occasion, must be mentioned
to the witness, and he must be asked whether or not he has made such
statement. [cf. 1854 c. 125 s. 22 U.K.; 1865 c. 18 s. 3 U.K.]