{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:225","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Duty to Testify","number":"225","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/225/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE III — EVIDENCE","chapter":"Chapter 4. — Witness Evidence"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Anyone who has been legally summoned as a witness is obliged to give evidence.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/225/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":130,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/130/?article=225&paragraph=p1#article-225-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"A witness may refuse to answer a question put to him if he would thereby expose himself or any one of his relations by blood or affinity in the direct line or in the collateral line in the second or third degree or his spouse or former spouse to the risk of conviction in respect of a criminal offence.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/225/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":130,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/130/?article=225&paragraph=p2#article-225-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}