Hearsay Rule in UK Law
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Myers v DPP
... ... to have been inadmissible is that its cogency depends on hearsay. The witness could only say that a record made by someone else showed ... but that early in the eighteenth century it had become the general rule that hearsay evidence was not admissible. Many reasons for the rule have ... ...
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R v Blastland
... ... , like the evidence of what Mark had said to the police, would be hearsay and therefore inadmissible ... 10 The appellant ... , not the judiciary, to create new exceptions to the hearsay rule. To admit in criminal trials statements confessing to the crime for which ... ...
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R v Horncastle and another
... ... provisions of the 2003 Act so as to preclude the admission of hearsay evidence in such circumstances or by excluding it under section 78 of the ... fairness that this statement appears to require "the sole or decisive rule" ... 8 The Court of Appeal did not accept ... ...
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R v Sharp (Colin)
... ... of the difficulties created in the law of evidence by the hearsay rule and its exceptions ... 15 I accept the definition of the hearsay ... ...
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R v Makanjuola ; R v Easton
... ... We disagree. The general rule against the retrospective operation of statutes does not apply to ... A recent complaint is admitted in evidence as an exception to the hearsay rule in order to show consistency. We see no reason why the absence of a ... ...
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R v Aziz
... ... The "purist" view was that no exception to the hearsay rule warranted the admission of the exculpatory part of the statement as ... ...
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Grant v State
... ... (Amendment) Act 1995, which inserted a new Part 1A entitled "Hearsay and Computer-generated Evidence". Part 1A comprises twelve sections, ... Section 31D of the 1995 Act, he says, undermines that rule ... 13 Counsel for the appellant bases this argument, first and ... ...
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Chase v News Group Newspapers Ltd
... ... (ii) In such a case it is not permitted to rely upon hearsay: Shah at pp 241 (Hirst LJ), 269–270 (May LJ) and 270 (Sir Brian ... The first of these principles is often now called the "conduct" rule, and the second is now regarded as part of the "repetition" rule ... ...
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Scott Hoyle v Julia Mary Rogers and Another Secretary of State for Transport (1st Intervener) International Air Transport Association (2nd Intervener)
... ... contends (a) that the admission of the Report would offend the rule in Hollington v Hewthorn [1943] KB 857 ; (b) that, insofar as the Report ... It is immaterial that it constitutes hearsay, whether primary or secondary. Insofar as it consists of expert opinion I ... ...
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R (McCann) v Manchester Crown Court
... ... issues, namely: (c) whether under section 1 of the Act hearsay evidence is admissible in proceedings seeking such an order; ... Public confidence in the rule of law was undermined by a not unreasonable view in some communities that ... ...
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