Questions intended to insult or annoy

The court must forbid any question it thinks is asked to insult or annoy a witness, or which is needlessly offensive in wording though otherwise proper. Such questions will not be allowed in evidence. The judge can stop them on their own or when an objection is raised.

Priya is asked in court whether she had an affair, but the questioner only wants to humiliate her rather than prove any fact. The judge will forbid that question as intended to insult, and it will not be put on the record.