Affidavits originating from a person with close links to the party concerned are of less probative value than third-party affidavits and must thus be supplemented by further objective evidence.

To the Editor: Ralph King Jr.'s article ("Medical Journals Rarely Disclose Researchers' Ties," 2/2/98) calls for further analysis of the assertion, by the journal Epidemiology's Kenneth Rothman, that ...

The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that the admissibility of a document and its probative value are different. The high court made this clear while acquitting a boy in a rape case after ...