NOUN
- evidence based on what someone has told the witness and not of direct knowledge
How To Use hearsay evidence In A Sentence
- All of this proceeds on the basis that hearsay evidence is probative and, therefore, relevant.
- It would permit hearsay evidence if deemed reliable. Times, Sunday Times
- In R v. Abbey, the Court held that an expert opinion based on inadmissible hearsay evidence is admissible, provided it is relevant.
- In the present case almost all the hearsay evidence derived directly from the complainant. Times, Sunday Times
- Traditionally hearsay evidence was inadmissible, subject to certain defined exceptions.
- There is hearsay evidence that Peg added to this speech a wish and desire to "bust the crust" of her traducers, and, remarking that "that was the kind of hairpin" she was, closed the conversation with an unfortunate accident to the plate, that left a severe contusion on the legal brow of her companion. The Twins of Table Mountain
- Instead witnesses are allowed to give hearsay evidence of an identification that takes place outside the court.
- It is the equivalent of late-night pub gossip, with nothing more than second-hand hearsay evidence to back it up.
- Lawyers for Mr Hockey said the evidence was based on hearsay evidence that was ‘vague and non-specific to a very great degree’.
- He used a combination of intimidation and hearsay evidence to browbeat the accused.
