The Evidence Act, 2011, repealed the old Evidence Act. In doing so, the new Act introduced some changes in the Law of Evidence. Ever since, there has been an urgent need for scholastic guidance, in the proper approach to the interpretation of the provisions embodying those changes. This is particularly so, as the courts have been issuing contradictory interpretations of these provisions. In his new book, Law of Evidence in Nigeria: Practice and Procedure, the veteran author and urbane man of letters, Professor Simon Uchenna Ortuanya, masterfully plumbs the intention of the draft's persons of the Act. The result is a five-hundred-and-forty-page treatise of redoubtable erudition. The succinct titles of the different chapters are quite captivating just as the logical presentations of ideas are very illuminating. The book bears the imprints of the erudite author's versatility in the Law of Evidence - a course he has taught, admirably, in two public universities years.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- FOREWORD
- CASES
- STATUTES
- CONTENTS
- Chapter 1 - CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
- Chapter 2 - RELEVANCE AND ADMISSIBILITY
- Chapter 3 - EVIDENCE OF INTENTION, SIMILAR FACTS AND DEFENCE OF ACCIDENT
- Chapter 4 - IMPROPERLY OR ILLEGALLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE
- Chapter 5 - ADMISSIONS
- Chapter 6 - CONFESSION
- Chapter 7 - HEARSAY EVIDENCE
- Chapter 8 - OPINION EVIDENCE
- Chapter 9 - CHARACTER EVIDENCE
- Chapter 10 - PRESUMPTIONS
- Chapter 11 - JUDICIAL NOTICE
- Chapter 12 - ESTOPPEL
- Chapter 13 - PROOF OF CUSTOM
- Chapter 14 - BURDEN OF PROOF AND STANDARD OF PROOF
- Chapter 15 - TAKING OF ORAL EVIDENCE AND EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES
- Chapter 16 - ADMISSIBILITY OF STATEMENT MADE IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCE
- Chapter 17 - CORROBORATION
- Chapter 18 - OFFICIAL AND PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION
- Chapter 19 - COMPETENCE AND COMPELLABILITY
- Chapter 20 - DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
- Chapter 21 - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
- Chapter 22 - AFFIDAVIT EVIDENCE
- Chapter 23 - ADMISSIBILITY OF COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE
- Back cover
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