Forensic evidence and types of forensic evidences

A stabbing case reaches court with a bloodstained shirt in a sealed bag, a doctor's post-mortem report, a chemical analyser's certificate, a fingerprint slip and a pen drive of CCTV footage. Which of these is oral evidence, which is documentary, and which is the object itself? The answer decides how each is proved, and getting it wrong is an easy way to lose marks.

In two minutes

Forensic evidence is not a separate legal category; it is ordinary evidence (oral, documentary or material) that depends on scientific analysis, and its type decides how it is proved.

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