Article 215 Procedure for examinationI1

At any examination of the respondent, the administrator may attend in person, or be represented by a solicitor with or without counsel, and may put such questions to the respondent as the court may allow.

Unless the administrator objects, the following persons may attend the examination with the permission of the court and may put questions to the respondent (but only through the administrator)—

If the respondent is ordered to clarify any matter or to give additional information, the court must direct the respondent as to the questions which the respondent is required to answer, and as to whether the respondent’s answers (if any) are to be made in a witness statement.

The respondent may, at the respondent’s own expense, employ a solicitor with or without counsel, who may put to the respondent such questions as the court may allow for the purpose of enabling the respondent to explain or qualify any answers given by the respondent, and may make representations on the respondent’s behalf.

Such written record of the examination must be made as the court thinks proper and such record must be read over either to or by the respondent and authenticated by the respondent at a venue fixed by the court.

The written record may, in any proceedings (whether under the Regulations, these Rules or otherwise), be used as evidence against the respondent of any statement made by the respondent in the course of the respondent’s examination.