The rules of evidence do not apply with the same rigour, in relation to hearings by tribunals and similar quasi-judicial bodies.\u00a0 Constitutional rights of fair procedure apply, but what they require is variable and depends on the nature of the proceedings.\u00a0 In some cases, the excessive reliance of hearsay evidence would be in breach of the citizen\u2019s rights to a fair hearing.<\/p>\n
The courts recognise that informal flexible and efficiency will justify the use of hearsay evidence, consistent with constitutional fair procedures.\u00a0 However, the more important and critical the interest in issue, the less acceptable is hearsay evidence.\u00a0 Where key constitutional rights are in issue, fair procedures generally require the right to cross-examine the person making the allegation of putting forward matters, which may lead to a determination materially affecting a constitutional right.\u00a0 See the sections on administrative laws.\u00a0 Therefore, where the matters concern a person\u2019s livelihood, property or reputation, fair procedures may require the ability to challenge critical evidence.<\/p>\n\n
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Hearsay Evidence Rule The most famous rule of evidence is that prohibiting hearsay. Hearsay is a statement made otherwise than in court, which is offered as evidence of the truth of its contents. \u00a0In the narrow and commonly understood sense, a witness may not generally relay that which another person said on another occasion as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}