The Evidence Standard (framework)

The Evidence Standard defines the principles and minimum expectations for how evidence of judgement and decision-making is captured, recorded, and verified.

Status of this framework

This document describes the core framework of the Evidence Standard. It is intended as a stable reference. Individual published standards, such as the Veriscopic Evidence Standard (VES), provide detailed, versioned requirements under this framework.

1. Scope

The Evidence Standard applies to the capture and preservation of evidence relating to human or organisational judgement, including decisions to approve, reject, accept risk, or proceed under stated conditions.

2. Core principles

• Evidence is captured at the point in time when judgement is exercised.
• Records are complete enough to support independent scrutiny.
• Integrity mechanisms protect against undetected modification.
• Verification is possible without reliance on proprietary systems.

3. Evidence records

Under this framework, an evidence record should, at minimum, capture: the time of judgement, the nature of the judgement, the accountable role, the relevant context or conditions, and an integrity mechanism that enables later verification.