证据必须具有相关性，这是证明活动的普适价值，但相关性规则的概念和实质必须借助特定的法律体系加以界定。本文选取了英美证据法作为模版进行分析，指出相关性规则包括相关性的定义，相关即为可采原则，相关证据的裁量排除规则以及限制相关性的规则，如传闻证据规则和品格证据规则；而相关性规则的实质是，通过定义相关性及其法律后果，以及规定对相关性的限制，以达到增进准确的事实认定之目的的一系列规则。据此看来，我国的刑事证据制度中，有许多具备相关性规则实质的规则。然而我国刑事证据制度既不像英美证据法以相关性为主线的，也不像大陆法系以严格证明和证据能力为主线，而是以证据的真实性作为刑事证据制度的主线。其后果是我国刑事证...It is an universal principle that evidence should be relevant to the facts of cases, but the meaning of rules of relevancy have to be defined in a particular legal system. Therefore, in this thesis, the Anglo-American evidence law has been selected as a model for analysis, which helped to find out that rules of relevancy include the definition of relevancy, the principle of relevancy means prima f...学位：法学硕士院系专业：法学院法律系_诉讼法学学号：1362009115020
