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admissibility of records
In civil proceedings, documents containing information (records) are admissible under the Civil Evidence Act 1995 as evidence of the facts stated in them. Before the introduction of the 1995 Act such documents and records were admissible only if they came within an exception to the rules prohibiting the use of hearsay evidence. In criminal cases, the hearsay rules in relation to business documents are now to be found in section 117 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Under this provision, such records are generally admissible if oral evidence would be admissible as evidence of the matter, the document was created or received by a person acting in the course of a trade, business, profession, or other occupation, or as the holder of a paid or unpaid office, and the person who supplied the information contained in the records had (or may reasonably be supposed to have had) personal knowledge of the matters dealt with. |