Professional Documents
Culture Documents
I. INTRODUCTION
Weight of Evidence – The balance of evidence and in whose favor it tilts. This refers to the
indication of the greater evidence between the parties. This depends on the judicial evaluation
within the guidelines provided by the rules and by jurisprudence.
This refers to the question as to whether the evidence amounts or meets the required quantum
needed to arrive at a decision in a civil, criminal, or administrative case; or to prove matters of
defense or mitigation or to overcome a prima facie case or a presumption
B. Civil Cases: Preponderance of Evidence: This means that the weight, credit and value of
the aggregate evidenced of one is superior to the other
IV. RULES IN THE EVALUATION OF EVIDENCE
5. The Court has the power to stop the further presentation of evidence on the same point as
when the additional evidence is only corroborative or the point has already been established,
or when it results to unnecessary delay
6. As to the testimony of a witness:
A.) the court must consider everything stated by the witness during the direct, cross, re-
direct and re-cross examinations
B.) the testimony of a witness maybe believed in part and disbelieved in other parts,
depending on the corroborative evidence and the probabilities and improbabilities of the
case. It is accepted as a matter of common sense that if certain parts of the testimony
are true, his testimony cannot be disregarded entirely.