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SOME ASPECTS OF REFORM IN THE NIGERIAN LAW OF EVIDENCE

The most important aim of law is to regulate the society wherein it is made. Such law must therefore, in order to be efficacious, be relevant and represent the yearnings and aspirations of such a society. Where certain “legal rules are too remote or too advanced for a particular society, the situation created will be like putting a square peg in a round hole. The most unfortunate fact is that while the English Law of Evidence is frequently being reformed and fine-tuned by Judicial decisions and legislative activity, Nigerian Law of evidence has since it was enacted in 1945 remained largely unt…