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KIR-2003-L-84054
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Title_of_text
Evidence Act, 2003 (No. 5 of 2003).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Kiribati
Subjects (Classification)
Criminal and penal law
Adopted on (Date of text)
2003-12-19
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
There is a need for an up to date Evidence Act for Kiribati, because the present evidence law is stuck with the pre 1961 U K law. There has been significant progress in legal thinking about admissible evidence; there have been remarkable advances in copying, computer and telecommunications technology; new attitudes have developed about the reliability of the word of young people and women; new social circumstances have produced different kinds of anti-social behaviour. All of these changes since 1961 require new kinds of rules for the admission of evidence in Courts. The U K has modernised its statutory evidence law, but these changes do not affect Kiribati law because the date of receipt of U K law here is 1961.
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Act on-line
Author
PacLII
Publisher
University of the South Pacific
URL
http://www.paclii.org/ki/legis/num_act/ea200380/
File
KIR84054.pdf (PDF)