law: Arbitration Act 1940
  Section 27
  Court Assistance in taking Evidence
  (1) The arbitral tribunal, or a party with the
  
  approval of the arbitral tribunal, may apply to the Court for assistance in
  
  taking evidence.
  (2) The application shall specify -
  (a)  the 
  
  names and addresses of the parties and the arbitrators,
  (b)  the 
  
  general nature of the claim and the relief sought;
  (c)  the 
  
  evidence to be obtained, in particular, -
  ( i )
  
   the  name and address of any person to be heard as
  
  witness or expert witness and a statement
  of  the subject matter of
  
  the testimony required;
  (ii)  the  description of any document to the produced or property
  
  to be inspected.
  (3) The Court may, within its competence and
  
  according to its rules on taking evidence, execute the request by ordering that
  
  the evidence be provided directly to the arbitral tribunal.
  (4) The Court may, while making an order under
  
  sub-section (3), issue the same processes to witnesses as it may issue in suits
  
  tried before it.
  (5) Persons failing to attend in accordance
  
  with such process, or making any other default, or refusing to give their
  
  evidence, or guilty of any contempt to the arbitral tribunal during the conduct
  
  of arbitral proceedings, shall be subject to the like disadvantages, penalties
  
  and punishments by order of the Court on the representation of the arbitral
  
  tribunal as they would incur for the like offences in suits tried before the
  
  Court.
  (6) In this section the expression
  
  "Processes" includes summonses and commissions for the examination of
  
  witnesses and summonses to produce documents.