Assignment Topics

Group I: What is best evidence rule? Draw a distinction between direct & circumstantial
evidence. Can a conviction be based on circumstantial evidence alone? Support your answer with
illustrations.

1. HaiderMahmood
2. Abdul Moeed
3. Fazeel Ahmed

Group II: What is expert evidence? What is its evidentiary value? Can a conviction be based
solely on expert testimony? Is there any difference between evidence of handwriting expert, foot
print expert, DNA & ballistic expert, give reasons to support your answer.

1. Aqsa Javad
2. Safia Imran
3. Jhanzaib Ahmad
4. Shehryar Nawaz

Group III: What is a Leading Question? Under what circumstances it may or may not be asked?
Can a party ask leading question from its own witness. Support your answer by converting
several non leading questions into leading ones and the vice versa?

1. Saad Ali
2. HamzaJavaid
3. Danish Ali
4. HumairPervaiz

Group IV: Oral evidence must in all cases be direct. Are there any exceptions to this rule? Draw
a clear distinction between direct & hearsay evidence with the help of hypothetical examples.

1. QasimHameed
2. JunaidAsghar
3. ShoaibKamboh
4. Aftab

Group V: What is the correlation between primary & secondary evidence and Public and Private
Documents? What are the prerequisites for presenting primary evidence? Under What
circumstances secondary evidence may be given? To what extent secondary evidence of a public
document would be admissible.

1. Ashraf ullah
 2. Salman Arif
3. Moazamali
4. Babar ali

Group VI: What are the different ways of proving Handwriting? Does handwriting evidence
stand on same footing as footprints evidence? Give reasons to support your answer.

1. Rashid
1. Mahtab
2. Talha

Group VII: Discuss in detail presumptions of law & presumptions of fact? What are rebuttable
& irrefutable presumptions of Law? In what manner these presumptions are expressed in QSO &
what is their implication for Burden of Proof.

1. HibahHussain:
2. MahnoorMushtaq
3. WajeehaAkram

Group VIII: Discuss in detail Identification parade? What is procedure? Under what provision
of QSO it is held to be relevant? In what cases holding of identification parade is mandatory?

1. Najamul din
2. Ammar Ahmed:
3. Awais Ahmed
4. Seemab Raza

Group IX: In what circumstances previous statements of a witness can be used at trial. What is
their evidentiary value? Discuss all such circumstances in detail.

1. Muhammad Faheem Abbas

2. Muhammad Aamir