%0 Journal Article %T Admissibility and value of witness and expert witness in the case-law of the International Court of Justice %J Public Law Studies Quarterly %I University of Tehran %Z 2423-8120 %A Sadat Meidani, Seyed Hossein %D 2015 %\ 06/22/2015 %V 45 %N 2 %P 237-253 %! Admissibility and value of witness and expert witness in the case-law of the International Court of Justice %K expert witness %K Evidence %K international adjudication %K law of evidence %K International Court of Justice %K Proof %K Witness %R 10.22059/jplsq.2015.54821 %X The parties to a case, before international Court of Justice, do have a broad freedom in presenting evidence, including hearsay evidence such as witness and expert witness. However, the Court will treat such hearsay evidence with particular cautious and only under certain circumstances will accord evidential weight to these documents. This article reviews those cases in which the parties relied on the evidence by witness or expert witness in order to sustain their own cases. The probative value of them is also analysed. %U https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_54821_77aa000a66cc8fa5486a434b86648b77.pdf