Article 80. Evaluation of evidence
Civil procedure code of the Republic of Uzbekistan · Date: 22.01.2018 · In force
The court shall evaluate the evidence proceeding from its internal conviction, based on a full, complete and impartial consideration in court of all the case circumstances in their totality and being guided by law.
Each of the evidence shall be assessed from the point of view of its relevance, admissibility and reliability, and the totality of the evidence from the point of view of its sufficiency.
Evidence shall be considered reliable if it is found to be true as a result of verification.
No evidence shall have predetermined admissibility for the court.
The court shall reflect the results of the evaluation of evidence in a decision which gives the reasons why some evidence was accepted as a means of substantiating the court's findings, other evidence was rejected by the court, and also the grounds for the reason why some evidence was preferred over others.
When evaluating the documents or other written evidence, the court shall ensure — by taking into account other evidence — that such document or other written evidence come from a body authorized to present this type of evidence, is signed by a person entitled to affix the document by signature, and contains all other integral details of this type of evidence.
When evaluating a copy of a document or other written evidence, the court shall verify whether the content of the copy of the document has changed when copying in comparison with its original; check technical method by which the copying was carried out; whether copying guarantees the identity of the copy of the document and its original; and the way in which the copy of the document was preserved.
The court may not consider proved the circumstances confirmed only by the copy of the document or other written evidence, if the original of the document is lost and not handed over to the court; when the copies of this document submitted by each of the disputing parties are not identical with each other; and it is impossible to establish the true content of the document by means of other evidence.