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The Types of Evidence Law

This guide explains Zambia’s Evidence Law, detailing types like circumstantial, documentary, oral, physical, hearsay, and primary vs. secondary evidence, and explores how relevance, materiality, and admissibility shape legal proceedings.

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    THE TYPES OF EVIDENCE LAW IN ZAMBIA written by ESTHER MULENDEMA NEW KABANANA, CHOMA, SOUTHERN PROVINCE 0972423841 esthermulendema20@gmail.com

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    FADE IN: INT. COURTROOM - DAY Close-up of a GAVEL resting on a polished table. Legal books blur in the background. (NARRATOR (VO.) In the legal world, evidence is everything. It proves facts, supports arguments, and guides justice. In Zambia, the Evidence Act, Chapter 43 defines how facts are presented and evaluated in court. Today, we explore: What evidence is, its types such as circumstantial, documentary, oral, physical, hearsay, and primary vs. secondary, and how it's admitted under Zambian law. INT. LAW LIBRARY - DAY Scales of justice. Animation of the Evidence Act opening. Keywords: "Relevance", "Admissibility", "Burden of Proof'. NARRATOR (VO.) Evidence includes facts, documents, testimony anything that helps prove or disprove a fact in issue. Evidence means the facts, testimonies and documents which may be legally received in order to prove or disprove the facts under inquiry or the facts in issue. It may also include all the facts, documents, material objects, statements and any other legal means that can be used to establish a matter in issue. As established in DPP v Kilbourne , evidence must be relevant making a fact more or less probable. INT. FORENSIC LAB - NIGHT A detective examines fingerprints on a glass.

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