I generally try to stay out of administrative hearings of any sort. Putting on evidence without the reliance on the code of evidence seems too much like, well, sex without a condom. Poking and prodding without protection is going to yield all sorts of infection.
So when I appeared the other evening before a municipal police commission on behalf of a fired cop trying to get his job back, I was more than a little uncomfortable. The city was permitted to offer as a full exhibit an Internal Affairs report. We objected, of course. But hearsay is not a cognizable objection in administrative fora. The document became a full exhibit.
