{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:232","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Witness Unable to Attend","number":"232","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/232/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK III — SERVICE, PLEADINGS AND EVIDENCE","title":"TITLE III — EVIDENCE","chapter":"Chapter 4. — Witness Evidence"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"If a witness lives too far away the court may transfer the examination to an equivalent court in the witness’s place of residence.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/232/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":133,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/133/?article=232&paragraph=p1#article-232-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"If a witness is prevented from appearing in court as a result of sickness or some other sufficient reason, the court or a delegated judge of the court in session may travel to such person in order to take his deposition or, in case sub-Article (1) is applicable as well, transfer the examination to an equivalent court in the witness’s place of residence.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/232/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":133,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/133/?article=232&paragraph=p2#article-232-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."}