As has been confirmed by the Court of Appeal (see R v Mental Health Review Tribunal (Northern Region)[2005] ECA Civ 1605) the flexibility of the civil standard lies not in «any adjustment to the degree of probability required for an allegation to be proved...» but rather in the fact that more serious allegations will require
more cogent evidence.
Not exact matches
We need to talk about it
more, we need to argue from clear premises and with
cogent evidence, and as we do so, we must look beyond the American scene.
The term sometimes means nothing
more than clear thinking, an ideal promoted by any class in which the professor requires attention to
evidence,
cogent arguments, and clarity of expression.
It is hard to imagine
more cogent prima facie
evidence that this was an act of terrorism.
However, regardless of the precise semantic difference between probable cause and reasonable suspicion, the reality is that, since their shameful and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to extradite Lofti Raissi, US prosecutors have had little difficulty in adducing
cogent evidence which satisfies not only the probable cause test but also the older (and
more difficult) prima facie test.
But in our view there was not clear and
cogent evidence to support
more than this minimal benefit to Baywest.
The point is well made but in addition... there is the
more fundamental requirement that in arriving at its findings of fact the Court may have regard only to
evidence which is relevant, probative and
cogent...