A Practical Approach to Evidence for Judicial Officers: Common Law Sources and African Applications

The manual for judges and judicial officers explains the common-law origins of evidence law, then offers contemporary country-specific analyses of thirteen southern and eastern African countries with a shared common-law colonial history: Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It includes guidance for gender-related issues such as the cautionary rule, protection of complainants in sexual violence cases, character evidence, treatment of child witnesses,  and similar fact evidence. The Judicial Institute for Africa and the Women & Justice Collection collaborated on this manual.

Topics

• Gender discrimination
• Sexual violence and rape
• Statutory rape or defilement

Geographical location

• Africa
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Keywords

• Children's rights
• comparative law
• constitutional rights
• criminal law and procedure
• due process

Year

• 2023

External URL

• A Practical Approach to Evidence for Judicial Officers: Common Law Sources and African Applications

Type

• Reference Guides