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Dr. Anjeet Kumar Choudhary S/O Late Amar Nath Choudhary Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, R B jallan college, Bela Darbhanga, L N Mithila University.

About The Book

Evidence in law, any of the material items or assertions of fact that may be submitted to a competent tribunal as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it. A primary responsibility of courts is to conduct proper proceedings in order to hear and examine evidence in order for court rulings to be founded on truth supported by evidence. The so called law of evidence is mostly composed of procedural rules governing how facts are proved and presented, whether by witness testimony, the presentation of papers or tangible objects, or the invocation of a foreign law. The many rules of evidence that have evolved under different legal systems have, in the main, been founded on experience and shaped by varying legal requirements of what constitutes admissible and sufficient proof. Although evidence, in this sense, has both legal and technical characteristics, judicial evidence has always been a human rather than a technical problem. During different periods and at different cultural stages, problems concerning evidence have been resolved by widely different methods. Since the means of acquiring evidence are clearly variable and delimited, they can result only in a degree of probability and not in an absolute truth in the philosophical sense. In common-law countries, civil cases require only preponderant probability, and criminal cases require probability beyond reasonable doubt. In civil-law countries so much probability is required that reasonable doubts are excluded. The law of evidence which governs the presentation of evidence in criminal and civil proceedings. Rules of evidence transcend all aspects of the trial stage of proceedings. The burden of proof (who has to prove what) and the standard of proof (how far those facts must be proven) are determined by these rules. In accordance with the laws governing relevance and admissibility, they control what evidence can be produced in court as well as how it must be presented to the fact-finding body and what it can prove or refute.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Law of Evidence
Chapter 2 Preliminary Issues
Chapter 3 Burden of Proof
Chapter 4 Silence
Chapter 5 Admissions and Confessions
Chapter 6 Illegally and improperly obainted Evidence
Chapter 7 Hearsay
Chapter 8 Character Evidence
Chapter 9 Witnesses
Chapter 10 Examination of Witness
Chapter 11 Contradiction and Corroboration
Chapter 12 Opinnion and Expert Evidence
Chapter 13 Proof of Documents
Chapter 14 State Privilege and Public Interest Immunity
Chapter 15 Disclousre of Evidence
Chapter 16 Mode of Proof
Chapter 17 Balancing Act
Chapter 18 Indeterminacy, Disagreement and the Human Rights Act
Chapter 19 Science, Law and the expert Witness
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