Evidence: Admissibility

Evidence: Admissibility. (a) For the purpose of this Section, evidence is reliable if it is the sort of evidence on which responsible persons are accustomed to rely in the conduct of serious affairs. (b) In hearings governed by this regulation, the technical rules relating to evidence and witnesses shall not apply. Any relevant evidence may be admitted, and such evidence shall be sufficient in itself to support a finding if it is reliable, regardless of the existence of any common law or statutory rule which might make improper the admission of such evidence over objection in a civil action. (c) By way of illustration only, those matters that would be admissible in a court of law are hereby deemed to be reliable, in addition to those matters that satisfy the standards set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this Section. (d) Irrelevant or unduly repetitious evidence shall be excluded upon request of a party or the hearing examiner's own initiative. (Adopted: 09/25/1991.)