Section 173 Evidence Act 2011
Section 173 Evidence Act 2011 is titled ‘Judgment conclusive of facts forming ground of judgment‘. It is under Part X (PRESUMPTIONS AND ESTOPPEL) of the Act. It states as follows:
Every judgment is conclusive proof, as against parties and privies, of facts directly in issue in the case, actually decided by the court, and appearing from the judgment itself to be the ground on which it was based; unless evidence was admitted in the action in which the judgment was delivered which is excluded in the action in which that judgment is intended to be proved.