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.
My second point relates to the right to cross-examine witnesses, which is fundamental to natural justice.
It concerns the arrangements for defendants to cross-examine witnesses in person.
We should imagine what will happen when, having legislated safeguards into the system, we have also removed the ability to cross-examine the accusing child.
That is not the same as saying that there should be no full right of cross-examination by instructing a competent advocate to cross-examine.
It shall be open to the prosecution to cross-examine anybody who is brought there and gives rebutting evidence.
Is he going to be the person to cross-examine us about our lawful authority to be there with the car?
That right has been whittled away in many areas and people no longer have the right to cross-examine their accuser.
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.
