Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Written contracts and grants
(1) When the terms of a contract, or of a grant, or of any other disposition of property, have been reduced to the form of a docum…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Documents twenty years old
(1) Where any document purporting or proved to be not less than twenty years old is produced from any custody which the court in t…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Presumption as to due execution, etc.
The court shall presume that every document called for and not produced after notice to produce was attested, stamped and executed…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Telegraphic messages
The court may presume that a message forwarded from a telegraph office to the person to whom such message purports to be addressed…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Books, maps and charts
The court may presume that any book, to which it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Certified copies of foreign judicial records
The court may presume that any document purporting to be a copy of a judgment or judicial record of any country not forming part o…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Powers of attorney
The court shall presume that every document purporting to be a power of attorney, and to have been executed before and authenticat…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Law and judicial reports
The court shall presume the genuineness of every book purporting to be printed or published under the authority of the Government…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Maps or plans
(1) The court shall presume that maps or plans purporting to be made or published by the authority of the Government, or any depar…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Documents admissible in England
When any document is produced before any court, purporting to be a document which, by the law in force for the time being in Engla…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Publications generally
Where any publication or part thereof indicates or purports to indicate the name of any person by or on behalf or under the sponso…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Gazettes, newspapers and documents produced from proper custody
(1) The court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be— (a) the London Gazette, the Edinburgh Gazette, or…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Gazette, etc., to be prima facie evidence
The production of a copy of any written law, or of a copy of the Gazette containing any written law or any notice purporting to be…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Records of evidence
Whenever any document is produced before any court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of any evidence given in a judicial pr…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Certified documents
(1) The court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document which is…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Proof of certain public documents
Without prejudice to any other mode of proof, prima facie evidence of the following public documents may be given in the manner he…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Proof by certified copies
Certified copies of public documents may be produced in proof of the contents of the documents or parts of the documents of which…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Certified copies of public documents
(1) Every public officer having the custody of a public document which any person has a right to inspect shall give that person on…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Distinction between public and private documents
(1) The following documents are public documents— (a) documents forming the acts or records of the acts— (i) of the sovereign auth…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Photographic evidence—admissibility of certificate
(1) In criminal proceedings a certificate in the form in the First Schedule to this Act, given under the hand of an officer appoin…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Reports by Government analysts and geologists
(1) In criminal proceedings any document purporting to be a report under the hand of a Government analyst, medical practitioner or…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Comparison of signatures, seals, etc.
(1) In order to ascertain whether a signature, writing or seal is that of the person by whom it purports to have been written or m…
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Proof of document not required to be attested
An attested document not required by law to be attested may be proved as if it was unattested.
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Evidence Act CAP 80▤
Proof where attesting witness denies execution
If the attesting witness denies or does not recollect the execution of a document, its execution may be proved by other evidence.
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