All facts logically relevant are not legally relevant. Narrate.
CS Executive · Jurisprudence, Interpretation and General Laws · PYQS · December 2022
All facts logically relevant are not legally relevant. Narrate.
Answer & Explanation:
A fact is said to be logically relevant to another when it bears such casual relation with the other as to render probably the existence or non-existence of the latter. All facts logically relevant are not, however, legally relevant. Relevancy under the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (the Act) is not a question of pure logic but of law, as no fact, however logically relevant, is receivable in evidence unless it is declared by the Act to be relevant. Of course every fact legally relevant will be found to be logically relevant; but every fact logically relevant is not necessarily relevant under the Act as common sense or logical relevancy is wider than legal relevancy. A judge might in ordinary transaction, take one fact as evidence of another and act upon it himself, when in Court, he may rule that it was legally irrelevant. And he may exclude facts, although logically relevant, if they appear to him too remote to be really material to the issue.
Topics: Indian Evidence Act, 1872
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