'INNOVATIVE LAWYERING AND JUSTICE DELIVERY IN THE 21ST CENTURY'

case you make him or her a member of the defence team. Likewise, you could engage another Lawyer as co-counsel, as often happens even amongst the largest international law firms.

Even technology has a role to play in the area of specialisation. This includes, having the required resources, such as electronic case law reports; journals, periodicals; and other resources. Technology also helps, to keep abreast of the latest decisions of appellate courts and new precedents. To give two examples:

a. Isubscribe,asIamsuremostofyoudo,toatleastoneelectroniclaw reporting service. I receive daily alerts of appellate decisions, and I must confess I don’t read all of them, but occasionally, I will see one that piques my attention and I will read it. I believe the most recent one that piqued my interest is a case entitled: BRILA ENERGY LTD v FRN (CA) (ratio is that a court may dispense with a certificate of authentication as provided under Section 84(4) of the Evidence Act, when a computer generated document is tendered in evidence, where a person with personal knowledge of the proper functioning of the computer testifies as such).

b. LAW360 –: I receive daily alerts from this service in areas of interest, such as White-Collar Crime Defence, Products Liability, International Arbitration, and Consumer Protection. Essentially, what I am stating is that, it behoves all of us to engage in continuing legal education (CLE). And, we don’t need to travel to get the information – we can get them on-line. That is part of the ingenuity of lawyering, in the 21st Century.

In closing, I have to admit that, even what I have spent the past 20 minutes or thereabout presenting, is borderline archaic – there is another phenomenon which we Lawyers and our justice system have to deal with -- Artificial Intelligence – Scary, Isn’t it .....???