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Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…In law the burden of proof lies upon the party who asserts the existence of a fact or set of facts.…
…must prove that those facts exist. (2) When a person is bound to prove the existence of any fact it is said that the burden of proof lies on that person.” 21.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…That the learned high court judge erred in both law and facts by upholding the case for the prosecution as proved beyond the reasonable doubt whereas the burden of proof was not discharged as the law demands in that:- I.…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Appeal
…The learned trial judge recounted the prosecution evidence, the appellant’s unsworn statement, correctly pointed out upon whom the burden of proof lay and said the appellant’s unsworn statement suggested the defence of drunkenness…
Division and case type: CriminalCriminal Case
…The learned trial judge recounted the prosecution evidence, the appellant’s unsworn statement, correctly pointed out upon whom the burden of proof lay and said the appellant’s unsworn statement suggested the defence of drunkenness…
…was in “no man’s land” near the Kenya-Somali border, and essential witnesses including the Somali Militia officers, were not called to testify, and all in all, the prosecution did not in the circumstances discharge the burden…
Division and case type: CivilCivil Appeal
…This is a discretionary power of the court and whilst it may be of great value and assistance to the court in cases dealing with customary law, yet this does not cast the burden of proof in establishing the customary law…