Requiem for the burden of proof

• Autores: Jordi Nieva Fenoll
• Localización: Revista ítalo-española de Derecho Procesal, ISSN-e 2605-5244, Nº. 2, 2022, págs. 165-187
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The burden of proof, a notion specific to the medieval Roman-canonical process but alien to the four Roman procedural systems, ought to have become obsolete with the in-troduction of the free assessment of evidence. However, doctrinal and jurisprudential iner-tia in the use of traditional concepts, as well as the conservation of biphasic processes in legal systems of Anglo-Saxon origin, including the Roman-canonical process, have favoured the persistence of a notion that, when observed objectively, has ceased to have any legitimate practical value in current judicial processes