When the second panel was struck the same
question of admissibility came up and the new panel made a unanimous decision of three to admit.
· The correct judicial response to
the question of the admissibility of hearsay evidence in an expert opinion is not to withdraw the evidence from the trier of fact unless, of course, there are some other factors at play such that it will be prejudicial to one party, but rather to address the weight of the opinion and the reliability of the hearsay in an appropriate self - instruction or instruction to a jury.
There is nothing in these Rules touching directly on
the question of the admissibility of hearsay evidence in expert reports.
Paonessa and Paquette, [1982] O.J. No. 3209 (C.A.): 1 JESSUP J.A.: — This appeal raises
the question of the admissibility of evidence given by an accused at a show cause bail hearing...... 20 In my view, the same principle should govern here.
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Relevance and admissibility Frequently, Hearing Panels are asked to rule on
questions of admissibility and relevancy.
Not exact matches
However, Y. C. Maikyau, SAN, counsel to Abubakar Aliyu,
questioned the
admissibility of the documents by the court.
[1] Beyond the topic
of this post, the Court also rejected a challenge to the
admissibility of the
question.
Before answering the substantive competition law
question in the Allianz case, the Court first addresses its jurisdiction as well as the
admissibility of the preliminary reference.
The Court's reasoning leading to the
admissibility of the request for a preliminary ruling is more interesting, as it relates to the amount
of information the Court needs to answer the preliminary
questions.
As R. v. B. (K.G.)[1993 CarswellOnt 76 (S.C.C.)-RSB- holds, at para. 121, the test for
admissibility does not apply to the
question of whether cross-examination should be permitted on a prior inconsistent statement:
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 decided to review Issues 2, 3, 5 and 6 on a «deferential standard
of reasonableness,» but applied correctness to Issues 1 and 4: «While I acknowledge that in the administrative law context a tribunal may develop its own procedures as to
admissibility without the recognized strictures found in the judicial rules
of evidence, whereas issues # 1 and # 4 principally involve specific
questions of law and concurrent issues involving breaches
of natural justice or procedural fairness, I will apply a standard
of correctness.
[40] From these authorities, I would summarize the law on this
question as to the
admissibility of expert reports containing hearsay evidence as follows:
It appears that there are no reported cases involving challenges to the
admissibility of such evidence, and this was the first time the
question had come before the High Court.
In the judge's view, however, these were all matters that went to the
question of what weight should be given to the contents
of the report, not to
admissibility.
Judge Weisberg then certified the following
question of law to the Circuit Court: «whether the District
of Columbia should adopt Federal Rule
of Evidence 702 (or a revised Frye standard) for the
admissibility of expert evidence.»
In this video blog, I look at the decision
of the Ontario Court
of Appeal in R v Khan, 2017 ONCA 114, and the division in the Court regarding how best to approach
questions of evidentiary
admissibility.
[119]... From the evidence on the record, the
question of Galloway's
admissibility was never an issue
of national security.
I didn't check through the other instances
of Kusk cites at the appellate level to see if any
of them involve this sort
of issue or at the trial level to see if they're reports
of trial judge's ruling on the (in)
admissibility of this type
of question.
Responsibilities include
questioning parties, issuing subpoenas for production
of witnesses and documents, holding conferences, ruling on objections and evidence
admissibility, receiving exhibits, assessing witness credibility, and maintaining an atmosphere
of fairness, impartiality, and due process under the law.