rebutting evidence

If necessary rebutting evidence may be called, the prosecutor is not allowed to reply in the case of the defendant.

Hastings, taking the view that the incident was too long in the past to be relevant, did not call any rebutting evidence.

I shall call rebutting evidence to prove up to the hilt that the hidden hand is again at its old game.

In the absence of such rebutting evidence, the court may award damages to the employee, even though the award is only approximate.

The trial took place in the Court of King's Bench before Lord Tenterden on 1 November 1830, when, although the plaintiff was represented by Henry Brougham, afterwards the Lord Chancellor, the jury, without hearing any rebutting evidence, almost immediately gave a verdict in favour of the defendants.