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Can Rules of Evidence Be Codified

The topic of my paper is entitled "Can Rules of Evidence Be Codified?"My answer is that of course they can.I was therefore very much pleased when Chief Justice Warren announced that rules of evidence would be drafted.'Sir James Stephen of England did it in the Indian Evidence Act enacted in 1872.2This Act applies to this day in India, Pakistan, and Burma, and has been adopted in Ceylon, and the African countries of Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.The American Law Institute adopted a Model Code of Evidence in 1942, and the Uniform Rules of Evidence of the National Conference of Commissioners on Unif…