Samenvatting

In various areas of law, attention to the law of evidence has increased significantly in recent decades. The same goes for the disciplinary law of various professions, such as that of lawyers and medics. It is noteworthy that Protestant church law pays limited attention to facts and evidence.
The purpose of this article is to clarify the regulation of fact-finding and evidence in Protestant church law and its theological backgrounds and to identify the points on which improvement of this regulation is desirable. The central question of this article is: ‘How is the regulation of evidence broadly regulated in Protestant church disciplinary law, and on which issues is further reflection needed in light of comparative law?’