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particularly in regard to hearsay, and
(3)
accommodate
all
states
in
relation
to
extraterrirorial problems.
3.
PROPOSED REFORMS.
(1) Certification and Authentication.
The present provisions of the 1870 Act, ss.14-15, and the Fugitive Offenders Act are cumbersome, time consuming and unnecessary. It should be a sufficient authentication that the documents (statements and exhibits) produced by the requesting state should be sealed by an appropriate Minister without the requirement of certification and proof of appointment of lesser officials.
(2) the Oath.
Give effect to the decision
to the decision in Dowse, and allow the magistrate to receive, as well as sworn and affirmed statements, statements which if untrue, render the person making them subject to prosecution for perjury or its foreign equivalent,
(3)
Rules of Evidence.
(a). in those countries where a witness makes a statement to a judicial officer, his report of what witness said to him should be admissable as if it were the direct evidence of the witness.
The problem has been combatted recently