0 to ask detailed questions of someone, especially a witness in a trial, in order to discover if they have been telling the truth
1 to ask detailed questions of someone, esp. during a trial, in order to discover if the person has been telling the truth:
2 to ask someone detailed questions, especially in a law court, in order to discover if what they said earlier was true:
Expert witnesses were cross-examined on their statements about how the accident had occurred.
We must have access to a vast mass of facts which we can, so to speak, cross-examine, balancing them against one another and interpreting them by one another.
The right place for this discussion is upstairs where counsel can cross-examine and deduce the validity of the various arguments.
The wretched part of it was that at the magistrates' court one could not cross-examine the author of the report because she was not there.
Now we come to the position when the complainant has given her evidence in chief and the defendant rises to cross-examine.
She or he may therefore be unable to cross-examine any witnesses, and those adjudicating are unable to measure the credibility of witnesses.
He was allowed to cross-examine witnesses; he was treated with courtesy.
Should they have free rein in court to cross-examine?
Constantly, when you have him there and have him available to be cross-examined, the other side do not want to cross-examine him at all.
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