Electronic Evidence and eDiscovery 2016


Course Date: October 14, 2016

Total: 36min
Course Agenda ▼

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)
Robin Reinertson — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver

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