Sunday, October 25, 2009

Evaluation of evidence- Guidelines

In the process of evaluating of evidence the court must have regard to certain guidelines like (a) admissibility of the evidence(b) relevancy of the evidence(c) credibility of the evidence(d) conclusiveness of the evidence(e) probability of the evidence of one party more than that of the other. The trial court having satisfied itself that the foregoing have been complied with would then apply the law to the situation presented in the case before it so as to arrive at a conclusion one way or the otherSee Mogaji v. Odofin (1978)4 SC 91; Akibu v.Opaleye (1974)11 SC 139 

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