Practice question
A court-appointed facilitator simplifies counsel’s question because the child would not understand it, while preserving counsel’s intended meaning. Is simplification categorically prohibited?
- All simplified questions are leading and forbidden
- Yes; the child must answer words not understood
- The facilitator may supply a different intended accusation
- Only a written dictionary may rephrase
- No; Section10 expressly permits comprehensible wording preserving meaning
Legal references
- A.M.00-4-07-SC, Rule on Examination of a Child Witness, Sections1,4–5,9–10,13: https://lawphil.net/courts/supreme/am/am_004_07_sc_2000.html
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