What’s on the Proof poster
A 5-row table: Concept · Means.
Burden and standard.
- Legal burden — Who must prove the issue overall
- Evidential burden — Who must raise enough to put it in play
- Beyond reasonable doubt — Criminal standard, on the prosecution
- Balance of probabilities — Civil standard, more likely than not
- Presumption of innocence — Burden stays with the prosecution
Educational reference. Reverse burdens exist in some offences and are frequently challenged on rights grounds.
Questions about the Proof poster
- What’s on the Proof poster?
- A 5-row table: Concept · Means. Burden and standard. Legal burden — Who must prove the issue overall; Evidential burden — Who must raise enough to put it in play; Beyond reasonable doubt — Criminal standard, on the prosecution; Balance of probabilities — Civil standard, more likely than not; Presumption of innocence — Burden stays with the prosecution. Educational reference. Reverse burdens exist in some offences and are frequently challenged on rights grounds.
- Who is the Proof poster for?
- Proof belongs to the Law section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning the legal system can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Proof poster?
- The burden says who must persuade. The standard says how far. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Proof belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Proof?
- Civil & Criminal Proceedings, Access to Justice and Resolving Disputes Without Trial sit alongside Proof in the Law section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Civil & Criminal ProceedingsAccess to JusticeResolving Disputes Without Trial
- Is the Proof poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Proof downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Law section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Proof poster print at?
- Proof is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Proof loses nothing.Printing guide
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Charts that sit alongside Proof on the same wall.
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