An evidence code is needed because, in R. v. Graat [1982] 2 S.C.R. 819, Justice Brian Dickson, delivering the judgment of the Supreme Court, stated: “We start with the reality that the law of evidence is burdened with a large number of cumbersome rules, with exclusions, and exceptions to the exclusions, and exceptions to the exceptions.” And now, that fragmentation of the law of evidence is much worse.
Source: An evidence code to replace the many evidence acts | Ken Chasse – The Lawyer’s Daily