What is the test for admitting a hearsay statement?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gosselin v Ramsay, 2019 BCSC 1394 (CanLII):
In Beam v. Mills Estate, 2015 BCSC 1269, a number of factors were enumerated when considering the threshold reliability for admission of hearsay statements. Beam reads as follows, at para. 75:
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