Evidence (disclosure) in civil proceedings

As a topic of my thesis I chose one of the fundamental topics of the civil procedure, because in the evidence in civil proceedings the court gets the grounds for a fair decision in the matter. Although it may seem classical, the topic is still very important because of modern trends and frequent amendments of the Civil Procedure Code. The issues related to evidence procedure are not only interesting, but also essential for practice, because the final judgment relies upon various pleadings of the parties and activity of the court. Due to its extent and significance, the topic cannot be fully covered by one thesis, and thus during elaboration of the thesis I divided it in two sections. The first section examines the general problems connected with evidence in civil proceedings and the second section deals with selected issues of evidence in civil proceedings, respective burdens and phases of the evidence procedure. In the first section I tried to define the term evidence and the subject of the evidence by finding what does and what does not belong therein. This section also addresses identical statements of the parties. Further I focused on institutes that facilitate the evidence in civil proceedings. Among these I examined legal fictions which allow to bring in a decision even where some statements..