In what circumstances will the Chief Justice of the Court of Justice Wachowich advise the jury not to read too many documents in a trial?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Jiang v. Koehnistedt, 2008 ABQB 305 (CanLII):
In the case of Martz v. Davidson, Chief Justice Wachowich cautioned that, “The focus must not be on the number of documents but rather on whether the jury will spend an undue amount of time studying the documents…”
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