Principle

EVIDENCE LAW — Pleadings — Facts Pleaded But Not Proved — Effect

Area of law
EVIDENCE LAW
Court
Supreme Court

A party must prove the facts pleaded. If evidence is not led on pleaded facts, those facts go to no issue. The court cannot consider them. The principle reinforces the rule that parties are bound by their pleadings and must adduce evidence to support them.…

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