(Into whose ears) they pour hearsay vanities, and most of them are liars.

(Into whose ears) they pour hearsay vanities, and most of them are liars.

And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.

And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.

on those who whisper hearsay in the ears of people and most of them are liars.

on those who whisper hearsay in the ears of people and most of them are liars.

Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.

Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.

The Court ruled that the affidavit of desistance should be considered as hearsay, and had no probative value.

And among them are the illiterate who know nothing of the Book except hearsay, and they only make conjectures.

And among them are the illiterate who know nothing of the Book except hearsay, and they only make conjectures.

The Court considered that these accounts by the alleged victim, although made out of court, were not simple hearsay.

In general, everything was merely hearsay and rumor, and not a single person I spoke to for over 36 hours knew anything with any certainty.

The Supreme Court considered that the testimonies of the investigators, who repeated what the victim had told them, could not be admitted as evidence, as they constituted hearsay.

He also argues that the evidence based on what the alleged victim had told police officers, social workers and the doctor was not considered hearsay and thus admissible evidence, whereas the affidavit of desistance signed by the alleged victim, and the testimony of the district public attorney who administered it, was considered hearsay by the judge, because the alleged victim had not come to court to confirm its contents.

In the author's case, the judge used the admissions (in fact accusations) of the alleged victim and ruled that for the same reasons as in the above mentioned judgement, these were not hearsay.

In the present case, the Committee notes that the judge convicted the author inter alia on evidence that the accounts made by the alleged victim, although made out of court, were not simple hearsay.

2.11 On 2 February, the author filed a motion for reconsideration, claiming that, in the absence of testimony of the alleged victim, the testimonies of the other prosecution witnesses constituted hearsay, and that there was no proof of the minor age of the victim.

In particular, he refers to a judgement of the Supreme Court used by the judge to underpin her order of 22 January 1996 in this judgement, the Supreme Court ruled that the admission of guilt by an accused through another person is not considered hearsay and is admissible in evidence.

On the issue that the alleged victim did not appear in court for cross examination, the Court of Appeal considered that this case constituted an exception to the general rule of non admissibility of hearsay evidence, because the alleged victim's statements took place immediately after the alleged facts, and were therefore natural and spontaneous.

Barely a week after prosecutors accused Tymoshenko based, yet again, on mere hearsay of organizing the 1996 assassination of a member of parliament, Yanukovych proclaimed Our goal is to ensure real economic and political independence, strengthen democracy and the rule of law, and establish Ukraine as a young, powerful, and modern state. This disturbingly common disconnect between official words and deeds devalues the rule of law in the eyes of the public.