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Does the list in BSA section 52 exhaust every fact of which a Court may properly take judicial notice?

Section 52 lists facts of which the Court "shall take judicial notice", but the list is not exhaustive: in Onkar Nath v Delhi Administration (1977) the Supreme Court took…

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Does the list in BSA section 52 exhaust every fact of which a Court may properly take judicial notice?

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Section 52 lists facts of which the Court "shall take judicial notice", but the list is not exhaustive: in Onkar Nath v Delhi Administration (1977) the Supreme Court took notice of a notorious public fact outside the corresponding former list. Judicial notice still cannot be used to assume a fact that is genuinely disputed, and the rule is the same in civil and criminal cases.

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