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WXW v KZY & Anor [2025] QSC 138: Extrinsic Evidence in Will Interpretation
In Australia, “construing a Will” is the legal process of determining the true meaning and intention of a deceased person’s Will when its language is ambiguous, unclear, or contradictory. When…
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Bombay HC: Hearsay evidence of a witness is not admissible unless the narrator is examined and states that he had narrated that fact to the witness
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Now let us examine whether what was heard by prosecution witnesses viz., PW2 Nandkumar Pol, PW3 Sunita Pol and PW4 Duryodhan Kadam allegedly from the victim minor child aged about…
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Bombay HC: How to appreciate prosecution evidence if letter given by police to doctor does not mention genesis of the incident as assault?
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As said above, there are two contemporaneous record. It includes the letter given by the Investigating officer to Civil hospital. It is at Exh. 103 and second is history mentioned…
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Bombay HC: Possession of weapon does not amount to offence under Arms Act if prosecution fails to prove notification banning possession of certain weapons
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Prosecution under Section 4 of the Arms Act is maintainable only when there is a notification thereby banning possession of the certain weapons. It is not produced on record. Even…
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Bombay HC: Prosecution case becomes unbelievable if there are no blood stains on the clothes of prosecution witnesses who had lifted the injured
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PW2 and PW9 had lifted Rajesh, their clothes also ought to have blood stains but their clothes were not seized by the Police. Reliance can be placed on the judgment…
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Bombay HC: Prosecution case becomes unbelievable if witnesses say that they did not lift the deceased and if they lifted, there were no blood stains on their clothes
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Another reason why we are not inclined to accept testimony of these witnesses is that, though all of them state that, they were on the spot and they also accompanied…
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Panchnama Under BNSS: The Document That Can Make or Break a Criminal Case
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I. Prefatory ObservationsA panchnama is not evidence of guilt; it is a procedural safeguard designed to preserve the integrity of an investigative act. Courts have repeatedly clarified that the document…
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Bombay HC: The doctor’s admission that the victim’s injuries could have been caused by falling on the road, combined with the existing enmity between the parties, constitutes grounds for acquittal
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It is observed that the Trial Court had considered the answers given by P.W. 7 Dr. Joshi, during his cross-examination that the injuries sustained by P.W. 1 and 2 could…
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PART ACCEPTANCE OR PART REJECTION OF THE PROSECUTRIX’S STATEMENT IS NOT ALLOWED
INTRODUCTION In Paramjit Singh Bedi v. State of Punjab, 2026 INSC 1054, the Supreme Court of India considered an important question about the way evidence of a Prosecutrix should be looked…
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Abuse: Use of confidential counselling records in defence of civil claim.
By Bill Madden
Hubicki v Australian Air League [2026] VSC 596 (Link to JADE). This interlocutory decision concerned the defendant’s application to inspect treating notes of plaintiff’s treating psychologist Dr Withers, which required…