evidential burden
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The obligation on a party to adduce sufficient evidence to raise an issue fit to be left to the tribunal, as distinct from the legal burden of persuading it.
The defendant bore only an evidential burden in respect of self-defence, which then passed the persuasive burden back to the Crown.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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