R v Smith, [1992] 2 SCR 915 is a leading decision on hearsay by the Supreme Court of Canada.

This decision, along with R v Khan (1990), began what is called the "hearsay revolution", supplementing the traditional categorical approach to hearsay exceptions with a new "principled approach" based on reliability and necessity of testimony.

Arthur Larry Smith was accused of killing Aritha Monalisa King.

At trial, King's mother testified she received four phone calls from her daughter the night of her death.

He found that the new approach was not just limited to child testimony but rather was a new method that applied to all hearsay statements, calling it a "triumph of a principled analysis over a set of ossified judicially created categories".