Affidavits originating from a person with close links to the party concerned are of less probative value than third-party affidavits and must thus be supplemented by further objective evidence.

To be entitled to support an illegitimate child must establish filiation to his/her illegitimate parent by, among others an admission in a public document or a private handwritten instrument signed by ...

A Manhattan appeals court reversed the gun possession convictions of two Harlem men Tuesday, saying the trial court had improperly admitted photos of the defendants holding guns and a Facebook message ...

The Palace on Friday maintained that the alleged leaked Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) documents remain “hearsay without probative value,” as it rejected insinuations that it is ...

The Michigan Law Review began publication in 1902 and is the sixth oldest legal journal in the country. The Review originally was intended as a forum for the faculty of the Law Department to publish ...

Senator Franklin Drilon welcomed on Thursday the Supreme Court (SC) order directing the government to release copies of police documents containing details about the government's controversial war on ...

The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that the admissibility of a document and its probative value are different. The high court made this clear while acquitting a boy in a rape case after ...

To the Editor: Ralph King Jr.'s article ("Medical Journals Rarely Disclose Researchers' Ties," 2/2/98) calls for further analysis of the assertion, by the journal Epidemiology's Kenneth Rothman, that ...

A retraction does not necessarily negate an earlier declaration. Retractions are looked upon with disfavor and do not automatically exclude the original statement or declaration. This is the general ...