BSA Section 33 — What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers

Summary

When evidence is given of a statement that is only part of a longer statement, a conversation, or a single document, or that appears inside a document which is part of a book, or that is part of an electronic record or a connected series of letters or papers, the evidence must cover only as much of that longer statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book, or series as the Court considers necessary in that particular case. The purpose is to give the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement and the circumstances under which it was made, and no more than that.

Official Text

When any statement of which evidence is given forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of the statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances under which it was made.

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