What is the legal test for giving weight to hearsay evidence?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Towle v. Samad, 2013 NSSC 260 (CanLII):
The appeal court may not consider the proper weight to be given to any evidence. (As discussed at paras. 22 and 33 of Morris v. Cameron, there may be situations in which the admission or weighing of hearsay evidence amounts to a breach of the duty of fairness. That is a rare circumstance and it involves a different issue than the one under discussion.)
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