📘 Law of Evidence – In 4 Volumes
✒️ Authors: Sir John Woodroffe & Syed Amir Ali
📆 Edition: 22nd (2025)
🌐 Language: English
🏢 Publisher: Lexis Nexis | Universal

Law of Evidence by Woodroffe and Amir Ali is the most authoritative and enduring treatise on the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. The 22nd Edition (2025), in four comprehensive volumes, provides a section-wise commentary enriched with case law, historical evolution, and comparative perspectives. It incorporates the latest amendments, judicial pronouncements, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, offering clarity on the transition from the old to the new evidentiary regime.

This edition includes leading judgments on confessions, electronic evidence, burden of proof, and expert testimony, with in-depth coverage of DNA analysis, cyber forensics, digital signatures, and admissibility of electronic records. It explains complex doctrines such as relevancy, admissibility, estoppel, and presumption with analytical precision and practical insight.

Widely cited by courts, scholars, and practitioners, this commentary remains a cornerstone reference for judges, advocates, academicians, and law students. The work balances classical principles with contemporary developments, offering doctrinal depth and practical guidance.

Published by Lexis Nexis | Universal, this 22nd Edition continues over a century of excellence, reaffirming Woodroffe & Amir Ali as the definitive authority on the law of evidence in India.