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THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AND LITIGATION

INTRODUCTION Today’s 21st-century law firm is one highly dependent on technology to facilitate and ease its activities. Technology, which is an essential tool of the modern law firm leverages electronic Information to function optimally.  For example, legal software such as Lexis Nexis and Law Pavilion transcend the traditional method of conducting legal research by deploying […]

THE LEGAL STATUS OF AN AFFIDAVIT VIS-À-VIS A WITNESS STATEMENT ON OATH: WHAT THE LAW HAS TO SAY AS TO WHEN THEY FORM PART OF EVIDENCE

To be clear, a basic foundation has to be laid with regard to what an affidavit and a witness statement on oath (hereinafter referred to as statement on oath) mean. Stating with certainty, it is unfortunate that a community reading of sections 107 – 120 of the Evidence Act, 2011, does not avail us with […]