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Dominic Jaar contributes to a collective work on Electronic Evidence

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Dominic Jaar recently contributed to “Electronic Evidence”, edited by Stephen Mason. This book provides a multijurisdictional (11 countries and territories) analysis of the main issues in electronic evidence: sources, characteristics, proof (investigation, collection, examination), authenticity, management and presentation of electronic evidence, as well as a review of legal issues: admissibility, privilege, hearsay… Dominic was responsible for the Canadian section of the “Practical management of electronic evidence” chapter. The various stages of E-discovery are explained from a bijuridictional point of view: preservation of evidence, litigation hold letter, data gathering, review, etc… The technological aspects of e-discovery are also given good consideration and thorough explanations: metadata, indexation, OCR, deduplication, deNISTing… The complete reference is Stephen Mason (ed.), Electronic Evidence, 2nd ed. (Lexis Nexis: Markham, 2010); ISBN: 978-1405749121; Lexis Nexis; WorldCat.