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Record W2286322069

The Principled Exception and the Forgotten Criterion

2007· article· en· W2286322069 on OpenAlexaff
Steve Coughlan

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Law and Evidence
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHearsayWitnessJudgementSupreme courtMeaning (existential)LawFederal Rules of EvidenceOriginal meaningPsychologyPolitical scienceEpistemologyPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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The principled exception to the hearsay rule is routinely described as being settled by the "twin criteria" of necessity and reliability. In fact a third criterion is also — or at least ought to be — at play: that admitting the evidence through hearsay would not undermine any other rule of evidence. The Court has made reference to this third criterion in the past, but it has largely been ignored in both Supreme Court and lower court decisions. The recent judgement in Couture depends in a limited way on that question, and so it marks an opportunity to articulate the issue more clearly, which ought to be considered at least in all principled exception cases.\nThis third criterion is related to the issue of necessity. Necessity is hardly discussed in judgments, and often properly so: where a witness is dead there is little to say on the matter. And although classically "necessity" contemplated situations where a witness was dead, insane, or out of the country, it has been clear from the start that the principled exception encompassed a broader meaning. In Khan itself, where the principled exception arose, the necessity criterion was met because the child's evidence was inadmissible, rather than because the child herself was unavailable. In B. (K.G.) the court made clear that the issue was whether the particular testimony was unavailable, even if the witness was personally present. Although necessity does not mean "necessary to the prosecution's case," it is satisfied if the evidence is "reasonably necessary."

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.029
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.058
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.029
Threshold uncertainty score0.153

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0290.058
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.035
Scholarly communication0.0090.014
Open science0.0060.008
Research integrity0.0130.019
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.302 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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