Hearsay Rule in UK Law
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Evidence ' The Basis Of Admissibility
... ... the decades. Complex rules such as the hearsay rule and its even ... more complicated exceptions are no longer directly ... ...
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Shagang HNA: A Non-binary Approach To The Weighing Of Evidence In A Civil Trial And Taking Into Account The Risk That Evidence May Have Been Obtained By The Use Of Torture (Video)
... ... At [102], he stated that the fact ... that he could not rule out torture further reduced the confidence ... that he could place in the ... estimating the weight to be given to the statement as hearsay ... evidence in civil proceedings must entirely disregard the ... ...
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Fair corporate criminal liability trial despite absence of company’s directing mind
The Court of Appeal has refused to grant a company leave to appeal its conviction for conspiracy to corrupt, notwithstanding that the directors who constituted the company's directing mind were not...... ... Hearsay evidence from these two directors had however been admitted in evidence ... , given that Alstom UK was a separate legal entity and there was no rule of law or practice which required a directing mind to be indicted with the ... ...
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Employment Briefing - August 2011
... ... Hearsay evidence not admissible ... The Administrative Court has held to be ... The Court held that whilst there is no general rule that a person facing disciplinary proceedings may cross examine witnesses, ... ...
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The Dekagram 23rd January 2023
... ... 'the general rule is that any fact which needs to be ... proved by the evidence of a ... The account of what the work colleague had said was simply ... hearsay, and not inadmissible per se (Civil Evidence Act ... Experts' reports ... ...
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Legal Issues With Electronic Documents
... ... be able to diminish its legal weight, if not have it treated as hearsay and rendered inadmissible ... Adoption of this 2008 standard should ... have been altered in any way, which is why there is a court practice rule devoted to it. However, businesses should also appreciate that failure to ... ...
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Insurance And Reinsurance Weeky Update - 13 January 2015
... ... JSC Mezhdunarodniy Bank v Pugachev A case on reliance on hearsay evidence in a freezing order application and proving the risk of ... finds that there is no valid arbitration agreement and goes on to rule on the underlying merits of the case, that judgment must still be ... ...
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Insurance And Reinsurance Weekly Update - 7 May 2013
... ... First Subsea v Balltec ... Whether hearsay notice is required for witness statement obtained in earlier proceedings ... , the judge said that he would be reluctant to lay down a general rule and "whatever the Practice Direction may literally say", it had to be read ... ...
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The Court Of Protection - Recent Cases And Comments On Procedure (Part 1)
... ... Is hearsay evidence admissible in the Court of Protection? If hearsay evidence is ... for the Court to make an order for specific disclosure under Rule 133(3) of the Court of Protection Rules 2007 requiring all parties to give ... ...
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'Proof by Case Management' and Other Myths about the Criminal Procedure Rules
... ... The Magistrates stated a case asking whether they had been correct to rule that the second expert report was inadmissible ... In finding that the ... This can be dealt with fairly shortly. A defence statement is a hearsay document. Any admission contained in it may be admissible as part of the ... ...
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