Section 127 - Judgments

(1) Evidence of a final judgment in a criminal action of a Court adjudging a person guilty of a crime is not made inadmissible by section 117 when offered to prove a fact essential to the judgment.

(2) Evidence of a final judgment of a Court is not made inadmissible by section 117 when offered by a judgment debtor to prove a fact which was essential to the judgment in an action in which the judgment debtor seeks

(a) to recover partial or total indemnity or exoneration for money paid or liability incurred because of the judgment; or

(b) to enforce a warranty to protect the judgment debtor against the liability determined by the judgment; or

(c) to recover damages for breach of a warranty substantially the same as the warranty determined by the judgment to have been breached.

(3) Where the liability, obligation or duty of a person other than a party is in issue in an action, evidence of a final judgment of a Court against that person is not made inadmissible by section 117 when offered to prove that liability obligation or duty.

(4) A judgment offered in evidence and admissible under this section is not made inadmissible by the fact that the judgment is an opinion or is not based on personal knowledge.