Section 7 Nigerian Evidence Act 2011
Section 7 Evidence Act 2011
Section 7 Evidence Act 2011 is titled ‘Facts necessary to explain or introduce relevant facts‘. It is under Part II (RELEVANCY) of the Act. It states as follows:
Facts –
a. necessary to explain or introduce a fact in issue or relevant fact; or
b. which support or rebut an inference suggested by a fact in issue or relevant fact; or
c. which establish the identity of any thing or person whose identity is relevant; or
d. which fix the time or place at which any fact in issue or relevant fact happened; or
e. which show the relation of parties by whom any such fact was transacted, are relevant in so far as they are necessary for that purpose.