Admissibility of Evidence

Admissibility of evidence in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of admissibility of evidence.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Officer
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• admissibility of evidence in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• admissibility of evidence in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Admissibility of Evidence

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Admissibility of Evidence : The principles determining whether or not particular items of evidence may be received by the court. The central principle of admissibility is *relevance. All irrelevant evidence is inadmissible, but evidence that is legally relevant may also be inadmissible if it falls within the scope of one of the *exclusionary rules of evidence.

See also conditional admissibility; multiple admissibility.