Evidence in Ghana case law.
99 passages under 15 sub-areas. Open a sub-area to read what the courts said, point by point.
Open in the Research toolBurden of proof
18 passages · 13 cases
- Burden of impeaching an attestation clause
- Burden of proof allocated by agreement
- Burden on a party whose averment is denied
- Burden on the party asserting a different price
- Burden on the prosecution
- Direction to the jury
- Duty of a civil defendant to lead evidence on the issues he wants decided
- Effect of a failed defence on the prosecution's onus
- and 8 more points
Character evidence
4 passages · 1 case
Confessions
7 passages · 3 cases
- Burden of proving that a confession was voluntary
- Corpus delicti
- Effect of retracting a voluntary confession
- Independent witness to a confession statement
- Meaning of a confession
- Statement of an accused as evidence against a co-accused
- Whether a bare statement can ground a conviction without proof that the crime occurred
Corroboration
7 passages · 5 cases
Documentary evidence
11 passages · 6 cases
- Admissibility distinguished from weight of a document
- Admissibility of unstamped instruments
- Documentary evidence preferred to conflicting oral testimony
- Effect of a wrong ruling on the stamping of a document
- Second attempt to tender a document rejected earlier
- Weight of a publication on a website
- Weight of a statutory declaration
Erroneous admission or exclusion of evidence
2 passages · 2 cases
Evidence against a deceased person
3 passages · 3 cases
Expert evidence
4 passages · 3 cases
Inference and presumption
11 passages · 10 cases
- Drawing inferences from conduct
- Gazette notice as prima facie proof of a fact of a public nature
- Inference distinguished from speculation
- Inference of guilt from false or conflicting explanations
- Meaning of circumstantial evidence
- Period of gestation
- Presumption of continuance of an office
- Weight of circumstantial evidence taken together
Inspection of the locus
1 passage · 1 case
Judicial notice
2 passages · 2 cases
Witnesses
24 passages · 17 cases
- Approach where the case is one of oath against oath
- Assessment of credibility by an appellate court
- Conflict between a party’s testimony and that of his own witness
- Cross-examination of a prosecution witness on a previous statement
- Effect of failure to cross-examine on a material fact
- Effect of inconsistencies in a witness’s testimony
- Evidence given in the first person by a representative of a party
- Evidence in rebuttal to show bias of a witness
- and 6 more points
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