James» extensive IP litigation experience includes
examination of witnesses at trial, depositions, claim construction proceedings, summary judgement and appeals.
The Doyle Inn would like to invite you to a training focusing on the successful cross
examination of witnesses at trial in civil cases.
This session will focus on the conducting direct
examination of witnesses at deposition and trial in civil cases.
Not exact matches
At the resumed trial
of Dasuki on charges
of unlawful possession
of firearms, the government
witness, Mr. Samuel Ogbu who was under cross
examination confirmed no incriminating items was found in the guest house.
She said Director
of Election Operations Anna Svizzero expressed dismay
at the delay and confirmed that the board could not receive evidence, hear
witnesses and / or allow for their cross
examination.
At the resumed hearing
of the case on Tuesday, the prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, concluded his
examination in chief for the first prosecution
witness Idowu Olusegun is a media consultant, under the name and style
of Paste Posters Company Ltd..
At the resumed hearing
of the case on Wednesday, the EFCC prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, sought the court's permission to continue with the
examination - in - chief
of the first prosecution
witness.
Not only did some parents take their children out
of school in protest
at the reintroduction
of examination for seven year olds, the DfE also
witnessed the leak
of a highly confidential SATs paper the day before
examinations were due to take place.
On cross
examination, plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae tried to chip away
at the heft
of Fraisse's testimony by having the
witness concede that the districts he led were relatively small with few schools and had student populations that were largely white, with much smaller percentages
of blacks and African Americans.
Significant expenses occur in areas like discovery, preparation
of witness statements and cross
examination at hearing.
Form 19 — Affidavit Form 20 — Requisition Form 21 (1)(a)-- Notice
of Appeal Form 45 — Answer Form 65 — Notice
of Motion Form 81 — List
of Documents (Partial Disclosure) Form 82 (3)-- List
of Documents (Full Disclosure) Form 82 (4) A&B — Affidavit
of Documents Form 103 (1)-- Notice to Attend Form 103 (4)-- Subpoena to
Witness Form 113 — Questions on Written
Examination for Discovery Form 114 — Answers on Written
Examination for Discovery Form 123 — Joint Application for Time and Place
of Hearing Form 130 — Request to Admit Form 131 — Response to Request to Admit Form 141 (1)-- Subpoena to
Witness (
at Hearing)
Consequently, for a judge not to allow defense voir dire / cross
examination questioning
of a prosecution
witness before a damning exhibit is allowed into evidence, presents not only a Due Process issue but also a possible perception
of pro-prosecutorial bias
of the judge, whether or not that bias exists,
at least in the eyes
of laypeople watching the trial, when a critical element
of a sufficiently functioning judicial system is for the public to perceive judges as following their oaths
of office.
Consequently, trial judges have nothing to lose and often much to gain by permitting
at least brief voir dire / cross
examination of prosecution
witnesses before a damning exhibit is offered into evidence, and also need to think twice before allowing inadmissible hearsay into evidence to see if the prosecutor «ties together» the evidence to make it no longer inadmissible hearsay.
Trial judges have nothing to lose and often much to gain by permitting
at least brief voir dire / cross
examination of prosecution
witnesses before a damning exhibit is offered into evidence.
In direct
examination, he testified that
at the scene
of the accident a
witness had written down the accident location on his vehicle registration papers and he could not read her handwriting so reported to ICBC that the accident had happened in New Westminster and that he was coming from Douglas College.
Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include judicial ethics; interpreters; delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators
of lethality
at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye -
witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues
at trials
of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application
of Gladue principles; mistrials and bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues; domestic violence issues; orders for
examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.
I am not sure how many times I have been limited in my cross
examination of a
witness because the judge indicates that I have «made my point» but I would suspect it happens
at least once in every trial.
A meeting between the officer and the defense attorney may well reveal potential defenses and potential cross
examination of the officer or other
witnesses at trial.
(2) For the purpose
of arriving
at the facts, the judge has all the powers
of the returning officer with regard to the attendance and
examination of witnesses or the judge may act upon the evidence taken by the returning officer.
Significant expenses occur in ar - eas like discovery, preparation
of witness statements and cross
examination at hearing.
At the very least, the Collaborative Process avoids time and cost - consuming litigation and adversarial proceedings, such as depositions,
examinations of multiple expert
witnesses, and the time consumed when attorneys have to be paid to wait for hours to be heard, as well as the court hearings themselves.
(f)
At the conclusion
of direct
examination, the opposing party or his counsel may cross-examine the
witness.