What is the test for creating a computer-generated business record?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v Clarke, 2016 ONSC 575 (CanLII):
Ares v. Venner was decided decades before the common use of computers in a business context. The requirement to prove the creator of a record in the modern world of electronic record keeping raises new inquiries when considering computer-generated business records.
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