epub Saskatchewan Evidence Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations

This Saskatchewan Evidence Handbook with Common Objections & Evidentiary Foundations contains not only the Saskatchewan Evidence Act, but also an 80-page appendix about making objections, laying foundations to introduce evidence at trial, and methods to impeach witnesses. The appendix may be particularly helpful to junior lawyers, less experienced practitioners, or anyone seeking a refresher—especially on presenting digital evidence such as emails, texts, and social media posts. The appendix contains a 16-page section on making and responding to common objections as well as a 60-page section on evidentiary foundations and impeachment.

The section on foundations and impeachment contains more than 25 examples of the most common evidentiary foundations used in the United States and a brief discussion of differing standards for authenticating digital evidence (such as email, text messages, social media sites, and internet cites).

The sample foundational questions are presented as short, question and answer transcripts. They include foundations for introducing evidence for photographs, diagrams, real and physical evidence, contracts, refreshing memory with documents or leading questions, recorded recollection or past recollection recorded, business records using live witnesses or affidavits or certifications, self-authenticating business records, demonstrative evidence, impeachment by prior written inconsistent statements, omissions, inconsistent oral depositions and statements, learned treatises, voicemail and phone conversations, digital evidence, distinctive characteristics and circumstantial evidence, digital evidence from a cell phone, outgoing and incoming emails, text messages, social media evidence such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and X, internet websites and web postings, fax, and expert opinions.

Those examples are not intended to suggest what you must do to admit such evidence in your country, but they can provide some guidance on how lawyers and judges can develop their own standards for the admission of such evidence. Look at the “Expanded Appendix Index” available for viewing from the “Read sample” tab under the image of the book’s cover to see a list of more than 110 topics covered in appendix to this book.

The author is an American law professor who was a Michigan criminal trial lawyer and has been a full-time law professor for over 50 years - a professor at the University of Hawaii Law School for the past 46 years and at Wayne State Law School in Detroit Michigan for 5 years in the 1970s. His students, under his supervision, in Hawaii and Michigan, have represented real clients in real cases every year he has been teaching. He has taught evidence since 1981 and has been the Director, and now Co-Director, of his law school's Clinical Program since 1978. In that program, under court rules, law students are allowed to appear in court to represent individual clients, government organizations, and NGOs, He has been a member of the Hawaii Supreme Court's Standing Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 1993. For the past 50 plus years, he has taught a criminal clinic in which his students try traffic and minor criminal cases under the state student practice rule.