The Evidence Act [ An Act respecting Evidence and Witnesses, making consequential amendments to other acts and repealing The Recording of Evidence by Sound Recording Machine Act | The Saskatchewan Evidence Act ]

An Act to amend the Canada Evidence Act and the Criminal Code in respect of persons with disabilities, to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act in respect of persons with disabilities and other matters and to make consequential amendments to other Acts

Bill S-5: An Act to amend the Canada Evidence Act, the Criminal Code, and the Canadian Human Rights Act

be proof of

documentary evidence | written evidence

circumstantial evidence | evidence by common repute | hearsay evidence | indirect evidence

injuries inflicted by the police or other law-enforcing agents, including military on duty, in the course of arresting or attempting to arrest lawbreakers, suppressing disturbances, maintaining order, and other legal action

evidence-based care | EBC | evidence based care

evidence-based medicine | EBM | evidence-based medical practice

For this choice being valid, it would be for the business to prove that the consumer made an informed choice and that he had advance information on all the rights and obligations conferred on him by that law (right of withdrawal, exchange of product, duration and terms of the guarantee, etc If the business failed to do so, the court would apply either the consumer's law or the mandatory provisions of that law. Such a solution, being justified by the existence of a Community minimum standard of consumer protection, would obviously be applicable only if the business was domiciled in a Member State. Non-Community businesses, in exchange for ...[+++] the choice of a law other than that of the consumer, would remain subject to its mandatory provisions and must accept the dépeçage of the contract.

On 1st July, shared burden of proof was introduced in the Equal Treatment Act, the Gender Equality Act, the Childminding Act, the Equal Pay Act and the Act of occupational pensions Schemes.

The Regulations amend the Sex Discrimination Act to enhance the definition of indirect discrimination, and to make clear that in a Tribunal claim the burden of proof shifts when the applicant presents a prima facie case, to the employer.

to stress the importance of making progress in media freedoms, as the main media are still exposed to censorship; welcome the High Court ruling of 2012, in the case of the internet media Malaysiakini, that a license to publish print media is a right, not a privilege; to express regret that freedom of assembly is still limited, especially in urban areas; to express concerns about the Evidence Act which creates legal liability to owners, administrators and controllers of computers which are used to publish a publication;