Digital Evidence, 3rd Edition

Digital Evidence, 3rd Edition offers a current and comprehensive examination of the legal principles and practical challenges surrounding digital evidence in Canada. Authors Gerald Chan and Justice Susan Magotiaux draw on their extensive expertise to explain foundational concepts and provide concrete guidance on using and responding to digital evidence at every stage of a criminal proceeding. In the third edition, Lindsay Board (defence, Daniel Brown Law LLP) and Rebecca De Filippis (Crown) have joined the author team to enhance the text’s practical focus and provide additional balance between Crown and defence perspectives.

This bestseller is designed to equip criminal practitioners with a solid understanding of the procedural, tactical, and strategic elements of gathering, admitting, and presenting digital evidence. Coverage addresses the full scope of digital evidence issues, including privacy rights, search and seizure of data, private communications, production orders, admissibility and authentication, disclosure obligations, and effective courtroom presentation. With two new chapters—Preparing for Trial and Artificial Intelligence— practitioners will learn how to confidently navigate trial-readiness, and emerging technologies reshaping investigative and evidentiary landscapes.

Practical, authoritative, and grounded in the realities of modern criminal practice, Digital Evidence is an essential resource for practitioners who want to stay at the forefront of digital evidence law and practice in Canada.