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REACHING THE POINT OF NO RETURN WHILE TENDERING DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE IN COURT

The process of tendering documentary evidence in court during trials, be it civil or criminal is rather a well settled one. This assertion is supported by a chain of decisions of our superior courts of records. While the Evidence Act and the various rules of the court make provisions for the necessary conditions to make documents relevant and admissible in trials, case law has come to fill the void of the procedural aspect of tendering those documents in the course of trial. This paper attempts to re-echo the firm principle in our law and also raise a bit of concern with regards to the 'point of no return' while tendering a document during trials.