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Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 59 was added July 9, 1976, P.L.586, No.142,...
Section 5901 - Judicial oath - (a) General rule.--Every witness, before giving any testimony shall take...
Section 5902 - Effect of religious beliefs - (a) Religious opinions not to disqualify.--The capacity of any person...
Section 5903 - Compensation and expenses of witnesses - (a) Scope.--The provisions of this section apply to a witness...
Section 5904 - Subpoena of witnesses - (a) Method of service.--In addition to any other method of...
Section 5905 - Subpoenas - Every court of record shall have power in any civil...
Section 5911 - Competency of witnesses generally - Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, all persons shall...
Section 5912 - Effect of prior convictions - No person shall be deemed incompetent or otherwise disqualified as...
Section 5913 - Spouses as witnesses against each other - Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in a criminal...
Section 5914 - Confidential communications between spouses - Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in a criminal...
Section 5915 - Testimony by spouse in rebuttal - In any criminal proceeding brought against the husband or wife,...
Section 5916 - Confidential communications to attorney - In a criminal proceeding counsel shall not be competent or...
Section 5917 - Notes of evidence at former trial - Whenever any person has been examined as a witness, either...
Section 5918 - Examination of defendant as to other offenses - No person charged with any crime and called as a...
Section 5919 - Depositions in criminal matters - The testimony of witnesses taken in accordance with section 5325...
Section 5920 - Expert testimony in certain criminal proceedings - (a) Scope.--This section applies to all of the following: (1)...
Section 5921 - Interest not to disqualify - In any civil matter before any tribunal of this Commonwealth,...
Section 5922 - Disqualification by perjury - In a civil matter, a person who has been convicted...
Section 5923 - Confidential communications between spouses - Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in a civil...
Section 5924 - Spouses as witnesses against each other - (a) General rule.--In a civil matter neither husband nor wife...
Section 5925 - Testimony by married person against spouse in rebuttal - In any civil action brought against a married person, if...
Section 5926 - Testimony by spouse after attack on character or conduct - In all civil actions brought by either the husband or...
Section 5927 - Actions by spouse to recover separate property - In any action brought by either the husband or wife...
Section 5928 - Confidential communications to attorney - In a civil matter counsel shall not be competent or...
Section 5929 - Physicians not to disclose information - No physician shall be allowed, in any civil matter, to...
Section 5930 - Surviving party as witness, in case of death, mental incapacity, etc - Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, in any civil...
Section 5931 - Incompetent witnesses - No person who is incompetent under section 5922 (relating to...
Section 5932 - Witness competent to testify against interest; to become competent upon release of interest - Any person who is incompetent under section 5930 (relating to...
Section 5933 - Competency of surviving party - (a) General rule.--In any civil action or proceeding before any...
Section 5934 - Notes of evidence at former trial - Whenever any person has been examined as a witness in...
Section 5935 - Examination of person adversely interested - In any civil action or proceeding, whether or not it...
Section 5936 - Medical testimony by deposition - (a) General rule.--The testimony of any physician licensed to practice...
Section 5941 - Persons who may be compelled to testify - (a) General rule.--Except defendants actually upon trial in a criminal...
Section 5942 - Confidential communications to news reporters - (a) General rule.--No person engaged on, connected with, or employed...
Section 5943 - Confidential communications to clergymen - No clergyman, priest, rabbi or minister of the gospel of...
Section 5944 - Confidential communications to psychiatrists or licensed psychologists - No psychiatrist or person who has been licensed under the...
Section 5945 - Confidential communications to school personnel - (a) General rule.--No guidance counselor, school nurse, school psychologist, or...
Section 5945.1 - Confidential communications with sexual assault counselors. - (a) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and...
Section 5945.2 - Confidential communications to crime stopper or similar anticrime program - (a) General rule.--No person engaged in, connected with or employed...
Section 5945.3 - Confidential communications with human trafficking caseworkers - (a) Sexual assault counselors.--An individual qualified as a sexual assault...
Section 5946 - Competency of certain witnesses where political subdivision is a party - A person shall not be excluded from being a witness...
Section 5947 - Immunity of witnesses - (a) General rule.--Immunity orders shall be available under this section...
Section 5948 - Confidential communications to qualified professionals - Communications of a confidential character made by a spouse to...
Section 5949 - Confidential mediation communications and documents - (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), all mediation...
Section 5950 - Confidential communications involving law enforcement officers - (a) Disclosure.--Except as provided under subsection (c), a critical incident...
Section 5951 - Confidential communications involving public safety responders and corrections officers - (a) Disclosure.--Except as provided under subsection (c), a critical incident...
Section 5952 - Confidential communications to peer support members - (a) Disclosure.--Except as provided under subsection (c), a peer support...
Section 5961 - Short title of subchapter - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
Section 5962 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter...
Section 5963 - Summoning witness in this Commonwealth to testify in another state - (a) General rule.--If a judge of a court of record...
Section 5964 - Witness from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth - (a) General rule.--If a person in any state which by...
Section 5965 - Exemption from arrest and service of process - (a) Incoming witnesses.--If a person comes into this Commonwealth in...
Section 5971 - Short title of subchapter - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
Section 5972 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter...
Section 5973 - Scope of subchapter - This subchapter does not apply to any person in this...
Section 5974 - Summoning prisoner in this Commonwealth to testify in another state - (a) Certification.--A judge of a state court of record in...
Section 5975 - Court order - (a) General rule.--If at the hearing the court determines: (1)...
Section 5976 - Terms and conditions - The order to the witness and to the person having...
Section 5977 - Prisoner from another state summoned to testify in this Commonwealth - If a person confined in a penal institution in any...
Section 5978 - Compliance - The court in this Commonwealth may enter an order directing...
Section 5979 - Exemption from arrest and service of process - If a witness from another state comes into or passes...
Section 5981 - Declaration of policy - In order to promote the best interests of the residents...
Section 5982 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter...
Section 5983 - Rights and services - (a) Designation of persons to act on behalf of children.--Courts...
Section 5984 - Videotaped depositions (Repealed) - 2004 Repeal. Section 5984 was repealed July 15, 2004, P.L.736,...
Section 5984.1 - Recorded testimony - (a) Recording.--Subject to subsection (b), in any prosecution or adjudication...
Section 5985 - Testimony by contemporaneous alternative method - (a) Contemporaneous alternative method.--Subject to subsection (a.1), in any prosecution...
Section 5985.1 - Admissibility of certain statements - (a) General rule.-- (1) An out-of-court statement made by a...
Section 5986 - Hearsay - (a) General rule.--A statement made by a child describing acts...
Section 5987 - Use of dolls - In any criminal proceeding charging physical abuse, indecent contact or...
Section 5988 - Victims of sexual or physical abuse - (a) Release of name prohibited.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law...
Section 5991 - Declaration of policy - In order to promote the best interests of residents of...
Section 5992 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter...
Section 5993 - Admissibility of certain statements - (a) General rule.--An out-of-court statement made by an individual with...