Earlier in the session, Alex Salmond and Sir John Elvidge, Scotland's top civil servant, gave evidence into civil service co-operation and communication.
The proposals have been strongly criticised by civil rights groups Amnesty, Liberty and Reprieve, who are opposed to the use of withheld evidence in civil cases and the power the changes will give ministers.
It will now also be judges, rather than politicians, who decide whether evidence in civil cases should be heard in secret.
It aims to allow sensitive material to be examined as evidence in civil proceedings, without that material being made available to the general public.
But the Supreme Court has undermined that idea over the years, most powerfully with its Daubert ruling in 1993, ordering judges to determine the credibility of scientific witnesses before they can even be allowed to provide evidence in civil lawsuits.
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Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union see DNA evidence as a slippery slope, however.
Civil action, because the evidence required is much lower, is in many ways a more attractive option.
He said that inviting "relatively junior civil servants" to give evidence to the committee was not "an appropriate manner in which to communicate departmental views".
He has denied each element of the obstruction of justice charges, including this allegation, that he encouraged a scheme to conceal evidence in a civil rights case.
's U.K. newspaper unit from late 2007 to mid-2009, has said he became aware of widespread wrongdoing in late 2010 as a result of evidence that surfaced in civil lawsuits against the paper.
Rather, because these programs provided both protection from criminal prosecution and a potentially favorable civil penalty structure, even taxpayers whose conduct did not evidence the willfulness necessary to support a criminal prosecution made voluntary disclosures to attain certainty regarding their civil exposure.
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"They have a right to sue her on behalf of their dead daughter, " he said, noting that the standard required for conviction in civil cases is a preponderance of the evidence.
Meanwhile, the special committee is piling up evidence that might lead to civil action by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or even a criminal complaint by the U.S. Justice Department.
In the former example, you can use anything from the Civil Rights Movement to The Scarlet Letter as evidence, while the latter likely begs more for examples from personal experience or abstract arguments.
There is a related civil case, which has been delayed until February 2011, to give the lawyers enough time to prepare following an anticipated decision in July on whether the wiretap evidence will be allowed in the civil trial.
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The government lawyers have subpoenaed mountains of documents and emails, and, not surprisingly, found enough evidence to embarrass Goldman and bring a civil securities charge.
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The alleged change was detailed Wednesday in a memo city lawyers sought to use as evidence during a trial stemming from a civil-rights lawsuit challenging the practice.
"The introduction of the civil investigation allows us to request documents and produce evidence to establish that kind of responsibility, " public prosecutor Cesar Carlan said, according to state media.
As part of its probe, the FTC is preparing to send out civil subpoenas to third parties to provide documents and evidence in its investigation, said people familiar with the matter.
It is also arrogant for such a claim to be made by those who have heard none of the evidence but rather rely on advice from civil servants at best and tabloid headlines at worst.
There is "no real evidence" that releasing private documents would stop civil servants giving candid advice to ministers, a tribunal has heard.
The Welsh Assembly Government's most senior civil servant, Permanent Secretary Dame Gillian Morgan, also gave evidence.
The Home Office could provide evidence of two arrests in relation to an alleged sham civil partnership.
But once intercepted traffic is presented as evidence, it is sure to reignite the debate over civil liberties and internet wiretapping.
But giving evidence, Mr Maude - who has responsibility for the civil service - said special advisers "came in all shapes and sizes" and while "there was a role" for people who could deal specifically with the media, most were "not in that category".
The inquiry has heard oral evidence from representatives of the Home Office, the police, civil liberties groups and academics.
The obligation to preserve the evidence began, they say, when the company first received civil lawsuits related to the hacking.
And the arguments and evidence behind urban surveillance tend to shove away the impact on civil liberties, which is a little trickier to quantify.
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But what I think that we are seeing here is the evidence of a schism that now exists in the black community between its civil rights leaders and the state community.
In a civil forfeiture lawsuit, the government prevails by proving the alleged structuring by a preponderance of evidence.
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