CONTENTS
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1. Initial Steps
2. Pleadings: Defining and Narrowing the Issues
3. Investigating the Case and Gathering Evidence
4. Interlocutory Applications
5. Pre-trial Case Management
6. Preparing Documentary Evidence
7. Preparing Witnesses
8. Anatomy of a Trial
9. Methods of Proof at Trial
10. Witnesses at Trial
11. Motions at Trial
12. Recording the Results of Trial
13. Jury Trials
14. Ethical and Professional Responsibility Issues
15. Costs
Appendices
1. The Trial Plan
2. Quick Reference Material
Editorial Board
Peter C.P. Behie, QC — Ramsay Lampman Rhodes, Nanaimo
The Honourable Mr. Justice David C. Harris — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Jeffrey P. Scouten — Henshall Scouten, Vancouver
The Honourable Mr. Justice Kenneth J. Smith — Court of Appeal for BC, Vancouver
Authors
Guy P. Brown — Harper Grey LLP, Vancouver
D. Geoffrey Cowper, QC — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Alison Murray, QC — Murray Jamieson, Vancouver
The Honourable Madam Justice N. Victoria Gray — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Brook Greenberg — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Keven D. Loo — Nathanson Schachter & Thompson LLP, Vancouver
James C. MacInnis — Nathanson Schachter & Thompson LLP, Vancouver
George K. Macintosh, QC — Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP, Vancouver
Allan P. Seckel, QC — Deputy Premier, Province of British Columbia, Victoria
The Honourable Mr. Justice Nathan Smith — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Martin R. Taylor, QC — Hunter Litigation Chambers, Vancouver
Greg J. Tucker — Owen Bird Law Corporation, Vancouver
Gordon Turriff, QC — Stikeman Elliott LLP, Vancouver