Other «digital legislation» produced by the ULCC includes
the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act (1998, fairly widely adopted) and the Uniform Privacy Protection Act (Data Breach Notification) of 2010.
The Court noted the source of the CEA rules in
the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act.
I mentioned the position of hearsay in electronic documents in my recent column on
the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act, the source of the relevant provisions of the CEA (and many provincial evidence statutes on the point).
The Uniform Electronic Evidence Act says how to apply the «best evidence» rule (which normally requires an original document, or a good explanation for the absence of the original) to electronic documents.
(quoted from a version of
the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act, s. 5 (c)-RRB-
The Uniform Electronic Evidence Act (1998) you drafted is exactly right for electronic records technology John.
31.1 ff of the Canada Evidence Act, which reflect
the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act.
Sections 31.1 through 31.8 (and
the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act from which they derive) do not deal directly with hearsay.
Not exact matches
The court held (wrongly, in my view) that the Alberta
Evidence Act (which implements the Uniform Act) required compliance with the CGSB Standard, but the proponent of the electronic evidence persuasively qualified its witness and the witness showed the court that her employer had complied, and the evidence was a
Evidence Act (which implements the
Uniform Act) required compliance with the CGSB Standard, but the proponent of the
electronic evidence persuasively qualified its witness and the witness showed the court that her employer had complied, and the evidence was a
evidence persuasively qualified its witness and the witness showed the court that her employer had complied, and the
evidence was a
evidence was admitted.
The reason that section 6 on standards was put into the
Uniform Act was to try to ensure that such standards would be read broadly, toinclude if need be these private agreements on how
electronic evidence would be handled.