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an e-trial is held at the request of the parties to the court, and is generally triggered by certain conditions such as a voluminous amount of documentary evidence. "Although electronic presen- tation of evidence is fairly common in criminal trials, true e-trials represent only a small portion of the hundreds of cases we conduct every year which do
not justify an e-trial process." CPN 14 encourages e-trials when any
of the following triggers are present: • A substantial portion of potentially discoverable records consists of elec- tronic material. • More than 1,000 records or 3,000 pages. • More than three parties. • A trial that will take longer than 10 days.
• Proceedings that are multi- jurisdictional. In 1159465 Alberta Ltd. v. Adwood
Manufacturing Ltd., a recent civil e-trial in Edmonton, one DVD replaced 18 three-inch binders full of paper. The DVD opened to a directory in which all of the exhibits were given a personal identifying number. Once individual
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