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2018 Georgia Code 24-13-4 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 24-13-4 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 24-13-4

TITLE 24 EVIDENCE

Section 13. Securing Attendance of Witnesses and Production and Preservation of Evidence, 24-13-1 through 24-13-154.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

24-13-4. Penalty for excessive witness fee claim.

A witness who claims more than is due to such witness shall forfeit all witness fees and shall pay to the injured party, in addition thereto, four times the amount so unjustly claimed.

(Code 1981, §24-13-4, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former O.C.G.A. § 24-10-4 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Attendance pursuant to subpoena.

- Expert, who was asked to conduct a preliminary review of evidence in order to better give an opinion as an expert, was entitled to demand extra compensation for attendance in court pursuant to a subpoena. Kent v. Brown, 238 Ga. App. 607, 518 S.E.2d 737 (1999).

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