Rule 39 Written statement of evidence to be in prescribed form and exhibits to be properly identified

Written statements of the evidence of a witness tendered in evidence to a magistrates’ court at a preliminary inquiry shall be in Form 26.

Where such statement refers to any document or object as an exhibit, that document or object shall, wherever possible, be identified by means of a label or other mark of identification signed by the maker of the statement and before the court treats any document or object referred to as an exhibit in such a written statement as an exhibit produced and identified in court by the maker of the statement, the court shall be satisfied that the document or object is sufficiently described in the statement for it to be identified.