Legal dictionary
Adverse inference
An inference drawn from silence or absence of requested evidence which is adverse to the party concerned. The rule applies not only to evidence which is destroyed, but also to evidence which exists but the party refuses to produce, and to evidence which the party has under his/her control, and which is not produced.
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