What is the test for the exceptional admission of hearsay?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Asling, 2011 ONCJ 838 (CanLII):
15. The principled approach to the exceptional admission of hearsay disavows any closed list of factors to be applied to determine whether the circumstances in which a hearsay statement came about meet the reliability requirement in an individual case. Reference: R v. Moo, supra, at para 93
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