What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers
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Summary
When only part of a statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of papers is put in evidence, the court may require the surrounding material. The court will allow only as much extra material as needed to understand the nature, effect and circumstances of the excerpt. Unrelated or excessive parts need not be proved.
Example
Rohan emails Meera about a shop payment and the middle paragraph is produced at trial. Because that paragraph is part of a longer electronic record, the court orders evidence of the surrounding paragraphs but not Rohan's whole inbox. The extra paragraphs clarify the true meaning and circumstances of the excerpt.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhen any statement of which evidence is given forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of the statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances under which it was made.
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