The Supreme Court of British Columbia’s Practise Direction regarding electronic evidence and e-trials is dated July 2006. It was part of an early Electronic Evidence Project by the Supreme Court. It is the oldest practise direction I found in circulation. Other Practise Directions – such as the Canadian Judicial Council’s National Model Practise Direction for […]
An E-Trial is a trial that uses electronic technology, hardware (computers and monitors) and software (the programs that run on them and agreed-to protocols and processes), in place of some – or all – of the traditional paper processes. An e-trial may involve one or more of the following elements: 1. hardware to display evidence, […]
The Federal Court of Canada held today that the North Slave Métis Alliance (NSMA) was not adequately consulted by Canada respecting the Northwest Territory Métis Nation Land and Resources Agreement-in-Principle signed July 31, 2015 (NWTMN AiP). The Federal Court held that the NWTMN AiP signals the intention of Canada to extinguish the Aboriginal rights of […]
Sir Isaac Newton, in his second law of motion, tells us why it is so hard to get the legal profession to adopt new technology. Newton’s second law is F=ma. This means that the larger and more massive an object, the smaller the acceleration you will get (for a given force). That is because the […]