Examination of witnesses - national proceedings

Barbados

Barbados - Criminal Procedure Act 1891

Section 2 Procedure for Trial on Indictment

Article 8 Power of prisoner or attorney-at-law to examine witnesses before addressing the jury

Upon every trial on indictment for an offence, whether the prisoners or defendants or any of them are defended by attorney-at-law or not, each and every such prisoner or defendant, or his of their attorney-at-law respectively, may, before addressing the jury, at his discretion, elect to examine such witnesses as he or they may think fit and, when all the evidence is concluded, to address the jury, and the right of reply and practice and course of proceedings, save as hereby altered, shall be as at present.

Rome Statute

Article 93 Other forms of cooperation

1. States Parties shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Part and under procedures of national law, comply with requests by the Court to provide the following assistance in relation to investigations or prosecutions:

(c) The questioning of any person being investigated or prosecuted;