Before you sign your certificate… stop!

Before you sign your certificate… stop!

A crucial legal right that protects you from mistakes and traps

Prepared by: Professor Mubarak Bajash Al-Bakari

Imagine you are called as a witness in a case, whether at the police station, before a prosecutor, or in a courtroom. When you give your testimony, you are truthful and honest, confident that you are contributing to achieving justice.

After you finish telling your story, the investigator or judge hands you a multi-page document and asks you to "sign here." In good faith, perhaps due to the pressure of the situation or a desire to finish quickly, you might sign without hesitation.

But are you 100% sure that every word recorded in the minutes accurately reflects what you said?

Your signature on the record is an acknowledgment by you that everything in it is your testimony, and this signature becomes evidence against you, not for you.

In this legal and practical analysis from the Know Your Rights and Law platform, we highlight a crucial legal right guaranteed to you by the Yemeni legislator:

Your inherent right to request that your testimony be read and any error corrected before signing, to protect you from unintentional mistakes and, more importantly , from deliberate traps that may change the truth and hold you responsible for what you did not say.

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