Financial Services Board Act, 1990
R 385
Civil Proceedings Evidence Act, 1965 (Act No. 25 of 1965)Part VI : Documentary Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions)35. Weight to be attached to evidence admissible under this Part |
| (1) | In estimating the weight, if any, to be attached to a statement admissible as evidence under this Part, regard shall be had to all the circumstances from which any inference can reasonably be drawn as to the accuracy or otherwise of the statement, and in particular to the question whether or not the statement was made contemporaneously with the occurrence or existence of the facts stated, and to the question whether or not the person who made the statement had any incentive to conceal or misrepresent facts. |
| (2) | A statement admissible as evidence under this Part shall not, for the purpose of any rule of law or practice requiring evidence to be corroborated or regulating the manner in which uncorroborated evidence is to be treated, be treated as corroboration of evidence given by the person who made the statement. |
