Question: 'There can be no legal definition of the term ‘relevance’, relevance must be assessed according to logic and the common course of events.'
Discuss.
Answer: The actual concept of relevance is easy to grasp, it simply refers to any item of proof that renders the existence of a fact in a case that has been put the court more probable or less probable. Difficulties arise in how relevance should actually be assessed. This essay will discuss how various commentators and Judges say that relevance should be assessed, by looking at the definitions that they have put forward and therefore discussed, and also how in practice relevance has actually been assessed by the courts in various cases that have arisen. Relevance denotes a relationship such that one fact has some bearing on another fact; and there are varying definitions that have been put forward as to what the term relevance means.......(short extract)
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Details: - Mark: 67% | Course: Law of Evidence | Year: 2nd/3rd | Words: 3036 | References: Yes | Date written: March, 2006 | Date submitted: April 05, 2011 | Coursework ID: 661
