Proficient in exercising
judgment of admissibility based on detailed analysis and evaluation of applications.
Not exact matches
In its Daubert
judgment, the US Supreme Court explicitly rejected the consensus or «general acceptance» test for the
admissibility of scientific opinions to replace it with requirements regarding sound scientific methodology, validity, and relevance.
The second
judgment of the ECJ in Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami thus raises several questions: to what extent is the economy
of the procedure indeed a valid justification for skipping a (n explicit) review
of the fulfilment
of the
admissibility requirements?
The Court
of Appeal will not interfere with a ruling as to
admissibility of evidence
of a defendant's bad character unless the judge's
judgment as to the capacity
of prior events to establish propensity is plainly wrong, or discretion to exclude under s 101 (3) has been exercised unreasonably in the Wednesbury sense.
It remains to be seen if the
judgment in the case C - 261 / 13 P Schönberger v Parliament somehow changes the approach
of the Petitions Committee and
of the Parliament in general when dealing with petitions and their
admissibility.
The court considered numerous foreign precedents, including two Supreme Court
of Canada
judgments, R. v. Béland [1987] 2 S.C.R. 398 [
admissibility of polygraph evidence] and Horvath v.
(iv) In reaching these conclusions, the court was applying the principle established by Hanson that it will not interfere with a ruling as to
admissibility of evidence
of a defendant's bad character unless the judge's
judgment as to the capacity
of prior events to establish propensity is plainly wrong or discretion has been exercised unreasonably in the Wednesbury sense.
The line
of authorities on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984), s 74 (
admissibility of guilty plea
of co-accused) as distilled in the
judgment of Lord Justice Staughton in R v Kempster, [1989] 1 WLR 1125, [1990] 90 Cr App R 14 (indicating that s 74 should be applied sparingly, because the evidence that a now absent co-accused has pleaded guilty may carry enormous weight in the minds
of the jury, but it is nevertheless evidence which can not properly be tested in the trial
of the remaining defendant) remains relevant despite the passing
of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003).
It contains an up - to - the - minute, detailed consideration
of the governing legal principles
of: Mareva injunctions; fraudulent preferences; the
admissibility of subjective intent and drafts in interpreting releases; and the test for summary
judgment.
This past summer, the Superior Court rendered
judgment in a criminal law matter and specifically considered the
admissibility of Wikipedia evidence.
«We remain convinced that the common law approach to evidence is basically sound, and that it would be unwise to reform the law in radically new directions, alien to the tradition
of the common law, for example by leaving the
admissibility of evidence solely to the
judgment of individuals presiding in particular cases.»
Last week, the Supreme Court released its eagerly - awaited
judgment in R v Marakah, 2017 SCC 59, holding that a person had standing to challenge the
admissibility of text messages to which he was a party but which the police had seized from another's cell phone.