Burdens of Proof

Burdens of Proof

1. Persuasive Burden

   • The 'legal' burden
   • satisfying the court the appropriate standard of proof for each fact in issue

2. Evidential Burden

   • gather enough evidence for court to consider

3. Tactical Burden

   • The 'shifting burden
   • to rebut evidence with his own

4. Civil Burdens

   • On the one making the action
     • Dickinson v Minister of Pensions
       • No evidence lead
   • Statutory
     • Buchanan v Price
       • Education Act
   • Facts that should be known
     • Burns v Royal Hotel
       • How fire started
   • Re-butting a Presumption
     • G v G's Trustees
       • Childbearing

5. Criminal Burdens

   • Usually on the Prosecutor
   • Defence
     • HMA v Mitchell
       • Insanity
     • Diminished Responsibilty
       • Galbraith v HMA
         • Battered Wife Syndrome
     • R v Foye
       • Does not affect Art 6
   • Special Defences
     • Aliby
     • Incrimination
     • Self-defence
     • Lambie v HMA
       • Jury decides weight
   • Statutory
     • King v Lees
       • Delayed Breathalising
     • Sheldrake v DPP
       • Does not affect Art 6