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- Why PDFs Can Sink Your Case – Preserving Individual Emails the Right Way
Martin Felsky Senior Counsel September 15, 2025 The portable document format (PDF) was a breakthrough for the legal profession. It allowed lawyers to share contracts and pleadings in a consistent, easily readable format regardless of the software used to create them. For preserving the appearance … Read more »
- Reconsidering the Presumption of Reliability for Digital Evidence in Canadian Law – A Cautionary Reflection on the UK Horizon Scandal
Martin Felsky Senior Counsel The Canadian legal framework for the admissibility of electronic evidence is grounded in a presumption that digital records generated or stored by a functioning electronic system are reliable. Codified in sections 31.1 to 31.8 of the Canada Evidence Act (CEA), this pre … Read more »
- Rethinking eDiscovery – From Risk Management to Ethical Design in the Age of Generative AI
Martin Felsky Senior Counsel August 8, 2025 For the past decade, lawyers adopting best practices in technology-assisted review (TAR) have been guided by one overriding concern: defensibility. Their workflows were built to withstand judicial scrutiny as prescribed by the rules, case law and the Sed … Read more »
- NATIONWIDE – CANADA: An introduction to eDiscovery
Kelly Friedman Chief Legal Data Intelligence Office and Senior Counsel This overview was recently prepared by Heuristica for inclusion in Chambers & Partners’ 2025 Litigation Support Guide released in June 2025. Canadian Perspectives on Global eDiscovery Trends and Emerging Best Practices In 2 … Read more »
- Document Dumps in Litigation: How Acciona Fell Short and Gowing Got It Right on Discovery Legal Standards
Kelly Friedman Chief Legal Data Intelligence Office and Senior Counsel July 23, 2025 In the evolving landscape of electronic discovery, courts are increasingly asked to adjudicate disputes over document production volumes and the boundaries of relevance. Two recent decisions, Acciona Wastewater So … Read more »