Indian death row prisoner has fingerprint evidence set aside on appeal
The Supreme Court of India has set aside the conviction of two persons, including one who had been sentenced to death, following a challenge to the fingerprint evidence. Not only was there a doubt over the reliability of the evidence, but even if it had been reliable, it was questionable whether it was sufficient to […]
Rules of Court in India amended to provide for ‘hot tubbing’
The procedure known as ‘hot tubbing’ (‘concurrent evidence’ or ‘debate among experts’) has been adopted by the High Court in New Delhi for intellectual property disputes. The procedure is used for the examination of expert witnesses, so that the judge can engage with two or more experts at the same time for the purposes of […]