In what circumstances will a court refuse to accept hearsay evidence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dye v. Morehouse, 1999 CanLII 5321 (BC SC):
In Bishop v. Hiebert, Macdonald J. stated at page 195: Subject to considerations of the weight to be afforded to such hearsay evidence, arising from the inability to test it by cross-examination at trial, a court should be deprived of such evidence only where the real possibilities of a lie or a mistake are present.
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