CAMBODIA – CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE

BOOK 5 JUDGMENTS

TITLE 1 - Judgment of Court of the First Instance

CHAPTER 3 - CONFRONTATIONS

SECTION 2 - The Rules of Evidence

Article 321. Evaluation of Evidence by the court

Unless otherwise required by a law, any evidence in criminal cases is freely admissible. The court shall have a free choice to determine the value of the evidence submitted to the court on the ground of its true belief.

The decision of the court shall be based only on the evidence which it has in the file or which has been presented at the hearing.

A confession shall be submitted to the court for consideration in the same manner as other evidence.

Answers given under the physical or mental duress shall have no evidentiary value.

Communications between the accused person and his/her lawyers is not admissible as evidence.