The use of secret or surreptitious audio or video recordings is on the rise. Lawyers Helena Birt and Heather Hui-Litwin talk about whether it is allowed to be used as evidence in court.
This video is Part 1: Legality

Coming up in the next videos:
Part 2: Admissibility and the Court's Attitude on this type of evidence
Part 3: How can introducing surreptitious recordings backfire
Part 4: Alternatives ways to tender evidence

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Surreptitious recordings in the context of an application brought by the Applicant father under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, 25 October 1980, C.T.S. 1983 No. 35 (“the Convention”) for an order directing the return of the parties’ son.
See paras. 4-12 to learn when a judge admits certain recordings and not others.

Dieffenbacher v. Baril Dieffenbacher, 2023 ONSC 1597 (CanLII), [ Ссылка ]

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