Sentences with phrase «use rules of evidence»

Pro se litigants complain that lawyers know the rules but don't always follow them, use rules of evidence to take unfair advantages, bully pro se litigants, resort to trickery when desperate, play buddy buddy with judges to get more favorable decisions, and have access to resources that self - represented parties do not.

... and this is why this country is so backwards and falling behind the rest of the post-industrial countries... and why is it that these... nuts... will use rules of evidence and «science» to back claims of biblical proof... but reject the same critria when it is used against them?

Not exact matches

The UWC, which uses a different, lower standard of evidence than law enforcement to reach a verdict quickly, delivered a ruling within five months.

There are no public rulings allowing for the use of this provision and the public evidence I could find suggested that 9948.00.00 does not apply.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

You need to prove, or at least provide real evidence (scientific method, rules of evidence), before we can move on to using The Babble for anything more than fire starter or toilet paper.

It is best understood when scholars apply to it the same rules of analysis, evidence and logic used in philosophy, history and literature.

Can you prove using the scientific method or justice system's rules of evidence that the scientific method or justice system's rules of evidence is the most reliable methods for knowing something?

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

«While some may argue that the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation used an elephant to swat a fly,» Lipstadt says, «once again it becomes clear that the deniers» claims have no relationship to the most basic rules of truth and evidence.»

Using a variant of instantaneous hazard analysis, we have, however, been able to rule out differences associated with denominational family and church polity types — that is, the evidence indicates that denominations with congregational polities are no more and no less likely than denominations with presbyterial or episcopal polities to experience schisms.

If rule finalized, agency intends to allow the use of a qualified health claim «as long as there is sufficient evidence.»

«The home secretary is now running out of legal options after three appeal court judges unanimously dismissed her challenge, ruling that «torture is universally abhorred as an evil» and that the UK can not deport Abu Qatada if there is a risk that evidence gained through forced or violent confessions will be used against him in a trial.

The values underpinning the constitutional and other legal exclusionary rules on evidence was to prevent such unconstitutionality by using unlawful and fraudulent private anti-corruptionpreneurs like the CEO of the dummy Tiger Eye or its other illegal variant.

In 2008 the courts ruled that using force for these purposes breaches children's human rights because it can cause serious harm and was not shown to be necessary (the court referred to evidence that in secure children's Homes restraint is not used to enforce good behaviour by children convicted of an offence).

It was last used hundreds of years ago, but a select committee can draw up evidence against someone who has committed «high crimes or misdemeanours beyond the rule of law».

A federal judge handed indicted Albany politician Dean Skelos a pile of legal defeats Tuesday, tossing out his motion to dismiss two of his corruption charges and ruling that prosecutors can use all the evidence they scored by wiretapping his cellphone, new court papers state.

«The use of intercept in evidence characterises a central dilemma we face as a free society - that of preserving our liberties and the rule of law, while at the same time keeping our nation safe and secure,» the prime minister said in a statement to the House of Commons.

A federal judge ruled that a conservative group can not get State Department records about Clinton's use of a private server during her tenure as Secretary of State because those documents don't show evidence of government «malfeasance.»

Doug Burns, a former Eastern District prosecutor from Nassau County, said the «cardinal rule» in the government's use of a cooperating witness is «whether or not what they say can be backed up or corroborated by other evidence in the case.»

While we find stronger evidence that schizophrenia risk predicts cannabis use, rather than the other way round, it doesn't rule out a causal risk of cannabis use on schizophrenia.

To rule out the possibility that the unsuccessful search was due to their method, the researchers also used the same approach to look for evidence of the dispersal of aquatic invertebrates.

Experts say similar evidence could be used whenever the source of a fast - mutating virus is at issue, and the case points to the need for an explicit set of rules governing the use of such evidence in the courts.

By ruling that there is not enough evidence of «currently accepted medical use» — a key distinction between the highly restrictive Schedule I classification and the less restrictive Schedule II — the administration essentially makes it harder to gather such evidence.

Based on the ESO data, the researchers used Bayes» Rule, a probability theory that determines the likelihood of that a theory is true based on new evidence.

A recent study using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found no detection of hydrogen - dominated atmospheres on planets TRAPPIST - 1d, e and f — another piece of evidence for rocky composition — although the hydrogen - dominated atmosphere can not be ruled out for g.

«Because the evidence provided by eHarmony did not demonstrate that their matching system offered users a significantly greater chance of finding lasting love than what could be achieved if they didn't use the service, we concluded that the claim «scientifically proven matching system» was misleading,» the ASA ruling read.

Jimmy winds up wearing a wire at times and places where common sense indicates it would be discovered, and is saved only by the Bathroom Rule, which indicates toilets in movies are never used for biological purposes, but only to dispose of wires, guns, evidence, etc..

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ordered L.A. Unified to show that it was using test scores in evaluations by Tuesday after ruling earlier this year that state law required such data as evidence of whether teachers have helped their students progress academically.

The U.S. Education Department hopes to get more states, districts, and researchers thinking about evidence use more deeply with new rules to apply standards of research evidence for school improvement and other projects under the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Yet despite the reams of evidence debunking the use of student growth scores in evaluating teachers, and despite these two court rulings, Judge Moukawsher insisted that rating teachers on student «growth» scores would satisfy his demand that Connecticut's system for hiring, firing, evaluating and compensating teachers be «rational» and «verifiable.»

These provisions strengthen protections for Federal employees who disclose evidence of waste, fraud, or abuse, and modify rules on the use of nondisclosure policies or agreements by government agencies.

It was a near future SF story where there was a perfect «mind reading device» developed but the Supreme Court ruled that to use it required strong evidence of criminal activity and it could be used only once per suspect.

Looking at the evidence, it's clear we're overdue for stronger guardrails on how federal aid can be used, including restoring limits on credit, eliminating certain types of loans, strengthening institutional and program - level accountability rules in general, and applying those rules to institutions based on graduate and parent loan outcomes.

Judicial Panels do not use technical rules of evidence.

Using the form of landscape photography, a tradition born with industrial expansion, these photographs evidence nature's force as it reclaims land subdued and ruled by a myopic civilization.

For example, in a court of law, rules of evidence greatly limit matters that can be used to attack witness's credibility to keep the lawyers for delving too far into extraneous matters.

Not necessarily talking about violating FOI here, just that Jones was afraid that FOI could be used to get the evidence that something outside of the stated IPCC rules had transpired.

Climate scientists are using the evidence - based rules of science to arrive at their conclusions.

AR5 WGI, having insisted, in an unsigned statement on page 26 of B&O's evidence to the Russell Review, that the Wahl and Ammann paper did not break any rules in AR4, they could hardly use the same deadlines this time and expect to get away with it.

As Mashey documents here, so well, this whole party has been a set - up, with scientists on one side, bound by the rules of evidence and by their own integrity, and think tanks, PR counsellors and their aides and allies on the other side, using any technique aailable (including, apparently, obtaining, using and disseminating stolen emails), to defend the right of fossil fuel companies to continue, unrestrained, in the sale and distribution of a substance that is threatening the human habitability of planet earth.

Therefore, it is only adequate rules of prevention, applicable to discovery and admissibility of evidence proceedings, that can provide a sufficient opportunity to apply safeguards against inadequate records being used as evidence.

Such evidence should include Canadian trade - mark registrations or evidence of use in Canada of common law marks along with a connection to Canada enough to establish the Canadian Presences Requirements under the rules.

Historically, the LERB reviewed decisions of chiefs and presiding officers after initial investigations on a standard of review of correctness, using a de novo hearing — the appeal court refers to the lower tribunal's record to determine the facts, but will rule on the evidence and questions of law without deference (respectful submission to the judgment) to the lower tribunal's findings.

The judge who granted leave to appeal acknowledged the decision's «importance to the profession, as well as to the administration of justice generally», and described the core issue raised by the decision to be whether «pre-approval to use discovery evidence under one of the exceptions contained in [Rule 30.1] is or is not required»: S.C. v. N.S., 2017 ONSC 2601 at para. 8.

USING ANSWERS OF WITNESS NOT AVAILABLE FOR TRIAL (17) The trial judge may give a party permission to read into evidence all or part of the answers or information given under rule 20 (questioning) by a person who is unable or unwilling to testify at the trial, but before doing so the judge shall consideOF WITNESS NOT AVAILABLE FOR TRIAL (17) The trial judge may give a party permission to read into evidence all or part of the answers or information given under rule 20 (questioning) by a person who is unable or unwilling to testify at the trial, but before doing so the judge shall consideof the answers or information given under rule 20 (questioning) by a person who is unable or unwilling to testify at the trial, but before doing so the judge shall consider,

The best evidence rule affects both real evidence, or physical evidence, and documentary evidence, or recordings of information used as evidence.

Therefore, the best evidence rule does not typically come up when photocopies of a document are used in court, unless one of the parties suspects that the copies have been altered through fraud or by mistake.

[19] In this case, there was no «independent» or «other» evidence of fabrication that would bring the appellant's statements into the exception to the general rule that a disbelieved alibi can not be used to support an inference of guilt.

My note mentioned a provision of the rules of procedure of the tribunal that barred evidence that violated fundamental rights (of anybody, apparently), and a section of the Manitoba Privacy Act that bars the use in any civil proceeding of any evidence obtained by a breach of privacy as defined in the Act.