juries

Opening and Closing Statements in Ontario Civil Jury Trials

gwise@wiselaw.net
March 22, 2010 15:45

The Ontario Court of Appeal has concisely restated many of the key "rules of the road" on lawyers' civil jury addresses in a new decision, Fiddler v. Chiavetti, 2010 ONCA 210, released March 19, 2010.Also of note, the decision establishes that the current cap on damages awards under Ontario's...

Does the Internet Create Unfair Jury Trials?

Pamela Pengelley
February 23, 2010 13:03

Jurors are not supposed to look at media coverage of the case during a trial since their verdicts are supposed to based on the evidence presented in a trial, rather than media reports. But can they really resist taking a sneak peek on the Internet? In February of 2010, the U.K.’s Ministry of...

THE TOP 10 CYBERLAW CASES: #10 – The File Sharing Trials

Pamela Pengelley
December 14, 2009 05:48

“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the plant” - Mark Twain. What Are the File Sharing Trials? The file sharing trials are copyright infringement actions dealing with the distribution and downloading of digital music. The Recording Industry...

November 07, 2009 15:46

Case overruled: Nebraska Supreme Court allows Defendant facing retrial after a trial court ordered a deadlocked jury mistrial to file a plea in bar motion to contest whether double jeopardy would bar the retrial. Although the court should have had counsel and the defendant present while declaring...

September 19, 2009 13:28

Petition for further review to the Nebraska Supreme Court sustained in No. S-08-959: State v. Simnick, 17 Neb. App. 766 (2009). Petition of appellant for further review sustained on September 16, 2009 {the finding that Defendant committed an aggravated offense for the purpose of lifetime community ...