R v Khan and R v Smith created what requirements for the principled exception?
Necessity
Reasonableness
Reliability
Certainty
Materiality
In a KGB application, you ask the trier of fact to consider a prior inconsistent statement...
for the truth of its facts, to undermine credibility and believe the prior statement
for its existence, to undermine credibility
for its ability to show the prior mental state of the declarant.
In R v Hawkins, a statement made at a preliminary inquiry was held to satisfy the threshold test of reliability.
What role do the traditional exceptions to hearsay play in conjunction with the principled exception?
Traditional exceptions inform but do not determine the principled exception.
The principled exception has replaced the traditional exceptions.
The principled exception supplements the traditional exception.
