Ontario Litigator's Guide to Evidence


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This practical guide provides immediate solutions to common and unfamiliar evidentiary problems that can arise in civil, criminal, family or administrative proceedings. Difficult concepts are simplified for easy understanding and instant use in court. The author takes the common law and the provincial and federal Evidence Acts to their essentials. This seventh Edition is fully updated to account for the rapidly changing laws of evidence, including revisions to the sections on expert testimony, false confessions and settlement privilege along with new sections on misapprehension of evidence and unreasonable verdicts, demeanor evidence and alibi. This publication is a must-have for any lawyer dealing with evidentiary issues, as well as judges, law students and professors, and law clerks and papalegals.




The Law of Evidence in Canada


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Introducing the new edition of Canada's leading work on evidence. Stay up-to-date on evidentiary issues with Sopinka, Lederman & Bryant - The Law of Evidence in Canada, 3rd Edition. Cited as authoritative by appellate courts throughout Canada, it is the only major Canadian treatise with in-depth coverage of both civil and criminal evidence. This new edition includes all significant changes to the law of evidence over the past decade.







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Ontario Small Claims Court


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"While there have been books dealing with the rules of Small Claims Court, there hasn't been a comprehensive handbook that teaches readers how to litigate a small claims case - from start to finish. Written by an experienced Toronto Small Claims Court judge and college legal educator, this "how to" book takes the mystery out of the Small Claims Court process. This much-needed guidebook teaches the reader about every major step that's followed in Small Claims Court, from bringing a claim, to defending a suit, to enforcing a judgment."--Pub. desc.




The Practitioner's Evidence Law Sourcebook


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"This practice-oriented sourcebook, authored by a seasoned lawyer with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General and a Master of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, contains a comprehensive digest of Canadian evidence law. The book covers the law of evidence as applied in both civil and criminal proceedings, and captures general evidentiary principles contained in thousands of selected excerpts from case law and statutes, supplemented with authoritative commentary. By providing the key passages of actual cases and statutes (as opposed to a discussion of theory), this book serves as a practical research tool for students, litigators and adjudicators alike, well suited to the preparation of an opinion, argument or factum."--pub. desc.




The Lawyer's Guide to the Forensic Sciences


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This guide provides criminal lawyers with a macroscopic view of multiple forensic science disciplines, specific to the Canadian legal system and written by Canadian experts. Facilitating further case-specific research, this guide seeks to reinvigorate dialogue and improve collaboration between the forensic and legal communities in Canada.