Evidence Law in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • R v Boardman
    • House of Lords
    • 13 November 1974

    The test must be—is the evidence capable of tending to persuade a reasonable jury of the accused's guilt on some ground other than his bad character and disposition to commit the sort of crime with which he is charged? The similarity would have to be so unique or striking that common sense makes it inexplicable on the basis of coincidence.

  • Lazard Brothers & Company v Midland Bank Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 28 November 1932

    I shall deal first with question (2) which is most important and is decisive, since it is clear law, scarcely needing any express authority, that a judgment must be set aside and declared a nullity by the Court in the exercise of its inherent jurisdiction if and as soon as it appears to the Court that the person named as the judgment debtor was at all material times at the date of writ and subsequently non-existent: such a case is a fortiori than the case which Lord Parker referred to in Daimler Co. v. Continental Tyre Co.

  • E v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 February 2004

  • Woolmington v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 05 April 1935

    Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt subject to what I have already said as to the defence of insanity and subject also to any statutory exception.

  • R v Kilbourne
    • House of Lords
    • 31 January 1973

    Corroboration is only required or afforded if the witness requiring corroboration or giving it is otherwise credible. If his evidence is not credible, a witness's testimony should be rejected and the accused acquitted, even if there could be found evidence capable of being corroboration in other testimony. Corroboration can only be afforded to or by a witness who is otherwise to be believed.

    Evidence is relevant if it is logically probative or disprobative of some matter which requires proof. It is sufficient to say, even at the risk of etymological tautology, that relevant (i.e., logically probative or disprobative) evidence is evidence which makes the matter which requires proof more or less probable. Evidence is admissible if it may be lawfully adduced at a trial.

  • English v Emery Reimbold & Strick Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 April 2002

    It follows that, if the appellate process is to work satisfactorily, the judgment must enable the appellate court to understand why the Judge reached his decision. This does not mean that every factor which weighed with the Judge in his appraisal of the evidence has to be identified and explained. But the issues the resolution of which were vital to the Judge's conclusion should be identified and the manner in which he resolved them explained.

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Legislation
  • Serious Crime Act 2015
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 2015
    ... ... (9) No information given by a person under this section is admissible in evidence in proceedings against that person for an offence." ... Appeals 3 Appeals ... (1) In section 31 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (appeal to ... ...
  • European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 2018
    ... ... separation agreement law) ,(c) section 15(2) and Part 2 of Schedule 5 (status of F312assimilated law for the purposes of the rules of evidence) ,(F251d) paragraph 16 of Schedule 8 (information about Scottish instruments which amend or revoke subordinate legislation under section 2(2) of the ... ...
  • Criminal Procedure Act 1865
    • UK Non-devolved
    • January 01, 1865
    ...Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ... Criminal Procedure Act 1865 ... Criminal Procedure Act 18651865 c.18An Act for amending the Law of Evidence and Practice on Criminal Trials.[9th May 1865] ... 1: Provisions of sect. 2. of this Act to apply to trials commenced on or after July 1, 1865 ... ...
  • Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014
    • Scotland
    • January 01, 2014
    ... ... (I121) A tribunal constituted under section 21 may require any person—(a) to attend its proceedings for the purpose of giving evidence,(b) to produce documents in the person's custody or under the person's control ... (I122) A person on whom such a requirement is imposed is not ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
  • The explanationist revolution in evidence law
    • No. 23-1-2, April 2019
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    • 0000
    According to Allen and Pardo, the field of evidence law has experienced a revolution -in Kuhn's sense- from probabilism to explanationism, which they identify with the relative plausibility theory....
  • The fate of evidence law: Two paths of development
    • No. 24-3, July 2020
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    • 0000
    Evidence law was famously deemed ‘the child of the jury’, its development widely perceived as a by-product of the jury trial. Conventional wisdom tells us that juries, because of their cognitive an...
  • The peculiarity of American evidence law: An outsider's observation and reflection
    • No. 26-3, July 2022
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    • 0000
    American evidence law is puzzling. It is essentially a large class of exclusionary rules barring certain types of otherwise relevant evidence from reaching the trier of fact at trial, although the ...
  • Evidence law and economics
    • No. 27-4, October 2023
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    • 0000
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Law Firm Commentaries
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Forms
  • Application for Certificate to Levy Distress
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Enforcement forms including forms used by judges.
    ... ... of the law of distress ... Please give any information below which may assist the judge in considering your case, for example ... evidence of knowledge of the law of distress ... The successful completion of the examination ... of the Certified Bailiffs’ Association will be ... ...
  • Annex C - Application for establishment of a decision
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Family forms including the form to apply for a non-molestation order or an occupation order (Form FL401).
    ... ... evidence relating to parentage ...  Decision of competent authority concerning parentage ...  Genetic test results ...  ... ...
  • Application for permission to appeal to Upper Tribunal from First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber)
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Forms relating to the General Regulatory Chamber (First-tier Tribunal), including notice of appeal.
  • Annex D - Application for modification of a decision
    • HM Courts & Tribunals Service court and tribunal forms
    Family forms including the form to apply for a non-molestation order or an occupation order (Form FL401).
    ... ...  Complete text of the decision from the State of origin ...  Evidence establishing a change in income or other change in circumstances ...  Written agreement between the parties related to modification of ... ...
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