Legal Regulation of Electronic Evidence in African Countries

The article presents an overview of the legislation of a number of African countries, including Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Qatar in the context of regulation of electronic evidence. Thus, national legislative acts, judicial practice, opinions of authoritative lawyers were considered, on the basis of which characteristic and distinctive features of the institution of electronic evidence were identified, as well as the requirements imposed by procedural legislation on their admissibility in the judicial systems of African countries. General trends in the use of electronic evidence by African courts in resolving civil cases were established. As a result of the study, the authors concluded that the institution of electronic evidence is rapidly developing in the procedural legislation of African countries.