WT... what happened to the entry form?!

Ack! lj! Please for to stop doing this! Please for to let user interfaces alone!

Oh well. On the menu for today, of interest to nobody but myself, and not really even holding much of my interest, to be perfectly honest:

• Reply to ff.n and lj
  
• 2 letters (jb, ij)
  
• Read through to June
  
• Deal with Embridge bill
  
• Call insurance re. house
  
• Wrap presents
  
• Summary:
  1. Methods of Adducing Evidence
     
     • viva voce (competence & compellability, child witnesses, direct & cross examinations)
       
     • real evidence, views, judicial notice
     
     
  2. Basic Rule of Admissibility (relevance, materiality, exclusionary discretion)
     
     
  3. Evidence Excluded to Improve Accuracy of Fact-Finding
     
     • Opinion Evidence (general exclusionary rule, ultimate issue rule, expert witness, novel science, computer-generated evidence, presentation of expert evidence, hearsay and opinion evidence)
       
     • Character Evidence (general considerations, bad character, good character, third parties, civil cases)
       
     • Secondarily Material Evidence (collateral facts rule, prior convictions, prior inconsistent statements, bolstering your witness, rehabilitating your witness, challenging your witness)
       
     • Hearsay Rule
       
     • Traditional Exceptions
       
     • Principled Approach

Evidence Excluded Primarily for Policy Reasons

• Self-incrimination (basic rule, witnesses, non-compellability of the accused, pre-trial right to silence)
  
• Illegally and Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence (common-law rule, section 24 of the Charter, where Charter rights violated)
  
• Privilege (general principles, solicitor/client, spousal, third party records, public interest immunity)

Rules relating to the evaluation of evidence (corroboration, burdens of proof and presumptions, concluding throughts)