Sr.

Topic Name
No.
1 History of Statutory Evidence Law in India ? Pre and post Indian Evidence Act, 1872 realities ? Role of
Judiciary, particularly the appellate judiciary in updating the Evidence Law rules by judicial creativity
2 Understanding the concepts: ?Facts?, ?Facts in issue?, ?Relevant Fact?
3 Evidence-Oral and Documentary?, ?Proved?, ?Disproved? and ?Not Proved? ? Section 3
4 Relationship between law of Evidence and Substantive laws (Criminal and Civil laws) and Procedural laws
(Code of Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure Code).
5 Relevancy of facts ? Sections 5-9, 11-16
6 Relevancy and Admissibility, The Exclusionary Principle
7 Conspiracy ? Section 10
8 Admissions - sections 17-23
9 Confessions - sections 24-30
10 Dying Declarations - Section 32(1)
11 Opinion of Third Person when relevant (Expert Evidence)- Sections 45-51
12 Facts which need not be proved ? Sections 56-58
13 Facts which the parties are prohibited from proving ? Doctrine of Estoppel ? Sections 115-117
14 Privileged communications ? Sections 122-129
15 Oral and documentary evidence ? Sections 59-78
16 Exclusion of oral by documentary evidence ? Sections 91-92
17 Burden of Proof ? Sections 101-111
18 Burden and Onus of Proof
19 Presumption ? Sections 4, 41, 105
20 Sections 111A-114A
21 Legitimacy and Paternity Jurisdiction ? Section 112.
22 a. (i) Who may testify- Child Witness/Dumb Witness, (ii) Communication during Marriage - Section 122 and
120
23 Professional Communications - Section 126, Evidence as to affairs of state - Section 123
24 ) Accomplice Evidence and Confession of Co-accused ? Section 133 r/w section 114 (b) and Section 30
25 Number of Witnesses ? Section 134
26 Hostile Witness ? Section 154
27 a. Order of production and examination of witnesses ? Section 135, (ii) Examination in Chief, Cross
Examination, Re-examination ? Section 137, Examination of witnesses ? Section 135 ? 166
28 b. Power of Judge to put question ? Section 165 r/w Section 311 Cr.P.C
29 Effect of improper admission and rejection of evidence ? Section 167
30 Revision