Law of evidence

This act applies to all judicial proceedings before

a)      Any court

b)      A court material (other than the court material held under the specified acts).

And this doesn’t apply to         

a)      Affidavits and

b)      Proceedings before arbitrators.

The type of Law which prescribes the mode or the procedure by which application of substantive law is regulated are called “procedural law” or otherwise “adjective law”.

So we can say that law of evidence is law of procedure. This particular law doesn’t define the rights and liabilities under the law, rather prescribe the mode by which ones rights and liabilities is as curtained. Thus this law helps in implementing the substantive law.

As we know law of evidence is a part of law of procedure, it decides:

a)      What all facts may and what all facts may not be proved in such cases.

b)      What type of evidence must be given to a fact which may be proved and

c)       By whom and then in what manner the evidence must be given by which any fact is proved.

This particular law deals with the modes of leading the evidence and as well as regulating that evidence of which the fact can be given in the court.

The pivotal objective of this law is to extend its assistance in judging what all facts are relevant to ascertain the truth and to avoid the confusion and how all those relevant facts will be proved in courts by lawfully leading the evidence.

Law of evidence is said to be Lex fory.