Evidential burden I recently created a page on evidential burden As Lord Bingham said in Sheldrake evidential burden is strictly speaking not a burden of proof but rather a burden of raising an issue Furthermore the burden of persuasion is also known as the legal burden If this article describes all burdens in the legal field which includes both the evidential burden and the burden of persuasion there is bound to be confusion Therefore if there is no objection from other learned editors I will restrict the coverage of this article to the burden of persuasion and remove references to the evidential burden but I may add links at the See Also section and other appropriate places