E-Trials Save Money and Time May 29, 2010

Luigi Benetton has an interesting piece in The Lawyers Weekly about e-Trials. As Justice Thomas Granger is reported stating:

Can you:

• Turn on a computer and monitor?
• Use a mouse?
• Use the scroll wheel on your mouse?
• Open a program?
• “Drag and drop” or “copy and paste” text from a document on a CD to a word processing file on your computer?

If you can do these things, Ontario Superior Court Justice Thomas Granger says that you have all the skills you need to conduct a paperless electronic trial.

I would add that, as a judge, the only other capacity you need is to compel the lawyers to provide their evidence in electronic format!