IEA Section 167 — No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence

Summary

A court will not order a new trial or overturn a decision just because evidence was wrongly allowed or wrongly excluded. This is only true if the court finds that the remaining evidence was enough to support the original decision, or that even if the excluded evidence had been considered, it would not have changed the outcome.

Official Text

The improper admission or rejection of evidence shall not be ground of itself for a new trial or reversal of any decision in any case, if it shall appear to the Court before which such objection is raised that, independently of the evidence objected to and admitted, there was sufficient evidence to justify the decision, or that, if the rejected evidence had been received it ought not to have varied the decision.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §169 — No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence