No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence
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Summary
Wrongly admitting or rejecting evidence by itself will not justify a new trial or reversal. If the court finds there was enough other evidence to support the decision, or that the excluded evidence would not have changed the result, the decision stands. Only errors that affected the outcome can overturn a decision.
Example
Priya is sued by her landlord for unpaid rent and the trial court wrongly excludes a receipt she produced. On appeal the court finds that testimony and other documents already proved the landlord’s claim even without that receipt, so the judgment is not set aside. The error alone does not get Priya a new trial.
Bare Act
Enacted textThe improper admission or rejection of evidence shall not be ground of itself for a new trial or reversal of any decision in any case, if it shall appear to the Court before which such objection is raised that, independently of the evidence objected to and admitted, there was sufficient evidence to justify the decision, or that, if the rejected evidence had been received it ought not to have varied the decision.
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