The Evidence StandardA framework for evidence of judgement

Framework reference

The Evidence Standard framework

The framework describes shared principles for how evidence of judgement and decision-making may be captured, recorded and reviewed.

Scope

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

Minimum expectations

  • Evidence is captured at the point in time when judgement is exercised.
  • Records are intelligible enough to support independent review.
  • Integrity mechanisms make undetected modification visible where applicable.
  • Sources, authority, conditions and limitations are declared.
  • Verification does not rely solely on a proprietary interface or untested assertion.

Published standards

Individual standards may provide detailed, versioned requirements under this framework. VES is the published decision-evidence standard stewarded by Veriscopic.