The objectives
of this course are demonstrating the importance of legal evidence in the practical
life before the courts. The course is also analyzing the legal concept of the
evidence as a method of proving rights. The course deals deeply with the
general rules of procedure and proof’s objectivity. The study includes topics
such as: different doctrines of evidence, methods of evidence, procedures and
arguments of evidence, the judge’s role
in evidence in Islamic jurisprudence and comparative systems, the recent
role of the judge and the litigants in evidence, the practical importance of
the burden of proof, judgments of evidenced. The course moreover addresses all
evidence, such as writing, testimony, presumptions and their legal rules. The
course furthermore explains the rules of evidence and their cadre of judicial
applications in the Kingdom under Shari’ah evidence rules and the Law of
procedure.