CLE Online

Welcome and Introduction

Graham J. Underwood — Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Justice, Victoria

Nature and Sources of Electronic Evidence

• challenges of electronic evidence – finding it, securing it, using it
• non-traditional sources of ESI
• new technologies – the cloud, SSD’s

Martin Felsky — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Toronto

eDiscovery — Managing Expectations

• preservation, collection and production of electronic evidence
• managing client expectations (cost, scope, time)
• managing expectations of other parties
• limiting scope of e-discovery
• emerging trends (non-linear coding, predictive coding, de-NISTing)

Sarah McEachern — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

Networking Break

Admissibility Principles

• general principles governing admissibility
• purpose drives admissibility principles and manner of presentation
• electronic evidence as documentary evidence
• electronic evidence as real evidence
• electronic evidence as demonstrative evidence
• expert evidence to authenticate electronic evidence

Graham J. Underwood — Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Justice, Victoria

Pre-trial authentication of ESI

• notices to admit and ESI
• document agreements
• scope of agreements (authenticity, reliability)

Networking Lunch

ESI from the Internet — Social Media, Instant Messaging

• internet web pages
• Facebook
• instant messaging
• ESI from the cloud

Michael T. Mulligan — Mulligan Tam Pearson Law Corporation, Victoria

Digital Forensic Evidence

• where it comes from
• how it’s used
• issues with admissibility (authenticity, CEA)
• proof of possession of ESI

Jim Hughes — Chief Legal Technology Counsel, Office of ADAG, Criminal Justice Branch, Vancouver

Ethical Issues in eDiscovery

• advising clients on e-discovery
• BYOD policies and privacy issues
• inadvertent waiver of privilege
• spoliation

Laura M. Cundari — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver

Networking Break

Electronic Evidence: Current Issues and Best Practices

• ensuring fairness – balancing probative value and prejudicial effect
• emerging trends
• expert evidence and demonstrative evidence
• e-trials

Graham J. Underwood (Moderator) — Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Justice, Victoria
The Honourable Mr. Justice Elliott M. Myers — Supreme Court of B.C., Vancouver
Claire E. Hunter — Hunter Litigation Chambers, Vancouver

Concluding Remarks

Graham J. Underwood — Legal Services Branch, Ministry of Justice, Victoria