EP#48 - Trial Preparation and Evidence in Criminal Trials

Fit & Proper Podcast

In this episode, Keyukemi Ubi and Taiwo Ogunleye, a practising lawyer, discuss Trial Preparation and Evidence under the Criminal Litigation course of the Nigerian Law School. The discussion covers the following themes:

• burden of proof (legal burden of proof, evidential burden of proof, and standard of proof)
• competence and compellability of witnesses
• rules governing child witnesses and unsworn testimony
• accused as a witness and co-accused
• persons of unsound mind as witnesses
• dumb witnesses
• married persons as witnesses against each other
• compellability of the President, Governors, diplomatic corps and judicial officers
• lawyers as witnesses ,
• admissibility of documentary evidence
• types of documents ,

To listen to this topic in civil litigation, listen to EP#33 - Trial Preparation and Evidence II