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Bodzioch, Adam “Electronic Data Interchange with the courts” Bulletin (Law Society of SA) 16(8): 22 (September 1994)
Krieger, Roy “Sophisticated computer graphics come of age — and evidence will never be the same” ABA Journal 78: 92-95 (December 1992)
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Comprehensive Internet site for the Legal Profession:
http://hg.org
Computer Technology Invades Litigation Practice:
http://gahtan.com/alan/articles/ctechlit.htm
Expert witnesses adept in information technology:
http://tabexperts.com/tabnews/comptech.html
THE INTERNET AND BUSINESS: A LAWYER’S GUIDE TO THE EMERGING LEGAL ISSUES
http://cla.org/RuhBook/index.htm
Discovery of Electronic Documents:
http://gahtan.com/alan/expert/C17A.HTM
http://www.collegehill.com/ilp-news/overly1.html,
http://eedinc.com/article.htm
HEADLINE:Casing Litigation-Support Software:
http://www.digital-lawyer.com/resource/bayer2.htm
Canadian Society for the Advancement of Legal Technology:
http://www.csalt.on.ca/
Litigating in the Information Age:
http://techgroup.torytory.ca/Publications/Roney2.htm
The Impact of Electronic Data Discovery on the Corporation:
http://www.eedinc.com.article.htm
The Role of computers in discovery:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/Complaw/CompLawPapers/collins.html
GEORGE SOMKUTI
Diploma in Education (Secondary Curriculum) from University of Victoria: 1976
Taught high school sciences in Victoria for a couple of years thereafter.
Went into business for the rest of 70’s and early 80’s.
Studied computer programming at University of Victoria in 1983.
Entered Law School at University of Alberta, graduated 1987.
Admitted to the Bar in 1988.
Taught several continuing education courses in Landlord and Tenant.
Wrote a database – document generation program which is still being used in several law firms in Edmonton.
Have been with Cummings, Andrews & Mackay since 1991 where I have a general practice and am also responsible for the computer system.
End Notes
- Confidentiality of electronic legal communications/maintaining solicitor/client privilege. A paper done by Lewis S. Eisen, Michael Eidle and Mark V. Ellis for a conference in April, 1995 on the computer super highway.
- J. Sopinka and S. Lederman, The Law of Evidence in Canada, (Markham Buttersworths (1992), p.637)
- Legal Assistant Today, “The New Age of Electronic Discovery”, May/June, 1996.
- Reichman v. Toronto Life Publishing Co. (1988), 30 C.P.C. (2D) 280. Bank of Montreal v. 3D Properties Inc. (1993), 110 Sask. R. 302 (QB).
Prism Hospital Software Inc. v. Hospital Medical Records Institute (1991), 62 B.C.L.R. (2d), 393(SC).
- Clapperton v. Bailey and County of Frontenac [1993] O.J. No. 497 (first civil case in Ontario where a computer generated image was introduced)
R. v. Suzack [1995] O.J. No. 4238 (first use of a computer animation in a Canadian criminal trial)