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Computer Retrieval – Drawing The Line?, Paul Thomas

Dalhousie Law Journal

The Master of the Rolls in England, Sir John Donaldson, said recently that he feared the use of a proliferation of useless materials from computers in presentations before the Court. He was probably echoing what Lord Diplock had to say for the House of Lords in Roberts Petroleum Ltd. v. Bernard Kenny Ltd. (in liquidation).1 In a lengthy per curiam speech, Lord Diplock in that case commented on the use sought to be made in the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal of previous unreported Court of Appeal judgments. The transcripts of shorthand notes of oral judgments rendered …