Types of Evidence Before the International Criminal Court

Authors

  • HayderAbd Mohsen Al-Jubouri1 , Nowrse Hadi Waheed2

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37506/mlu.v20i4.2119

Keywords:

Evidence, Types,Criminal Court.

Abstract

Evidence for proof that the international courts relied on varies, including the International Criminal Court.
There is direct evidence to prove, and there is indirect evidence for proof, and direct evidence is intended to
be evidence that is directly focused on the incident to be proven, and if the judge acquires his knowledge of
the incident to be proven directly, it may be This evidence is anecdotal, and it may be material, and anecdotal
evidence is known as the kind of deductive or inductive evidence that the mind perceives or that the thought
concludes from its analysis of the facts, circumstances, or motives that cover the commission of the crime or
the occurrence of the accident, it is what emanates from personal elements represented in what comes from
others From sayings, which are represented in testimony and recognition, as for material evidence, it means
everything that has an entity that can be perceived and disclosed, whether by human senses, that is, directly,
or by means of modern scientific technology, that is, indirectly, and is represented in written evidence and
electronic evidence, while indirect evidence is Evidence that is not focused directly on the incident to be
proven, that is, it is focused on another incident with a close logical connection to it, so it requires the
application of reason and For logic to deduce the event on which the evidence is directed and which it is
intended to prove, when the event that embodies the content of the evidence requires some intellectual
processes of examination, analysis, extrapolation and deduction, then here the evidence is indirect, and this
evidence is represented in experience and evidence, and as for the authority of all kinds of evidence evidence
or the legal value of it, then Most of them are subject to the principle of judicial conviction that is adopted
by all international courts, including the International Criminal Court, and which allows the court to reach
the truth by any legitimate means.

Author Biography

  • HayderAbd Mohsen Al-Jubouri1 , Nowrse Hadi Waheed2

    1
    Assistant Professor, Dr., University of Babylon/College of Law, Iraq, 2University of Babylon/College of Law, Iraq

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Published

2020-11-18

How to Cite

Types of Evidence Before the International Criminal Court. (2020). Medico Legal Update, 20(4), 1885-1890. https://doi.org/10.37506/mlu.v20i4.2119