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Tag Archive: Court Procedure

WILL JUDGES BE PROHIBITED FROM USING CHAT GPT?

Steve Benmor | February 17, 2025

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and judicial decision-making is a topic of increasing relevance in courts worldwide, including in Canada. With the rapid development of AI technologies – particularly... Continue Reading...

5 Tips For Proving And Winning Your Case To The Judge

Steve Benmor | November 14, 2022

What we lawyers do is really an ancient art, and a common one at that. It’s called storytelling. We tell the story of your case using evidence. The successful telling... Continue Reading...

Family Courts’ all you can eat (aka litigate) buffet has closed

Steve Benmor | January 10, 2017

If there ever was a time when the public had unlimited access to the courts, that time has come to an end. In Greco-Wang v. Wang [2014] O.J. No. 4319,... Continue Reading...

Emails as evidence: Snapshots versus Threading

Steve Benmor | January 9, 2018

Once upon a time, photographs, video and audio recordings were introduced as evidence to impeach a witness or prove a point.  Lawyers would order surveillance to support their client’s theory... Continue Reading...

Full disclosure before marriage: Can keeping a secret be tortious?

Steve Benmor | October 3, 2017

That is the question that Justice Brown had to answer in Vaseloff v. Leo [2014] O.J. No. 4836. In this case, Vaseloff and Leo began a romantic relationship in 2002... Continue Reading...

How to cut down on the court backlog: charge admission

Steve Benmor | April 4, 2017

The province of British Columbia established a policy to charge litigants fees based on the number of days of trial. In Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v. British Columbia... Continue Reading...

Trial judges and their ‘gate-keeping’ function in relation to expert evidence.

Steve Benmor | February 2, 2017

Society has become more complex.  Whether the subject is commerce, education, health or relationships, trial counsel have grown accustomed to relying upon experts to convince judges of the outcome sought... Continue Reading...

The Probative Value of Wikipedia: An (Im)balance of Probabilities

Steve Benmor | September 5, 2016

In this era, the first place a person goes to find information is the internet.  With trillions of websites abounding containing information from medicine to travel advisories to employment options,... Continue Reading...