Official NUC CCMAS syllabus
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Add ICL 503 to my StudyOps — free →Nature, Sources and scope of the law of Evidence under the Shari’ah; Courts vested with jurisdiction in Islamic civil and criminal laws and the roles of legal practitioners; Means of Proof: Iqrar (Confession)- definition and conditions/elements; Shahada (Testimony); Burden of Proof; Competence of Witness; Tazkiyah; Weight of Evidence; Withdrawal of statement by a witness; Types of Evidence: - Evidence of Infants; Circumstantial Evidence; Documentary Evidence; Declaration of a dying person. Inspection and opinion of experts; Methods of Instituting criminal and civil proceedings in the Sharia Courts; Custody and Bail of Accused, Process to compel the attendance of Accused, Power to search by Police and other Officers (including a brief explanation of the status of police in Sharia); charges and complaints in Sharia Courts, Preliminaries to trial, Trial and/or hearing, Judgment, Appeals; Oath as means of Proof: Who will take an oath and when? Conditions for taking an oath; Al- lstihqaq (Entitlement): Its definition and conditions; Elements of Entitlement. Documentary and Circumstantial Evidence; Burden of Proof, Standard of Proof; Facts the proof of which is made in exceptional cases: Character evidence, Expert evidence, Presumptions, Estoppel, Long possession ( Hauzi); Wrongful admission and rejection of evidence. Al -Sulh (Arbitration and Settlement out of Court): Its definition
Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study ICL 503.