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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Procedural provisions - Persons entitled to be heard

127: Court not bound by rules of evidence

You could also call this:

"The court can consider any information it thinks is important, even if it's not normally allowed."

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When you are in court for a case about the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003, the court can listen to any evidence it wants. The court is not limited to only hearing evidence that would normally be allowed in court. This means the court can consider all the information it thinks is relevant to making a decision, even if it's not usually admissible in a court of law, and you can find similar rules in the 1986 act.

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Part 9Procedural provisions
Persons entitled to be heard

127Court not bound by rules of evidence

  1. In a proceeding on an application under this Act, whether at first instance or on appeal or otherwise, the court may receive any evidence that it thinks fit, whether it is admissible in a court of law or not.

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