Section 23 Canadian Evidence Act

Section 23 Canadian Evidence Act 1985 is about Evidence of judicial proceedings, etc. It is under Documentary Evidence of Part I of the act. The Evidence Act of Canada is an Act respecting witnesses and evidence.

Evidence of judicial proceedings, etc.

(1) Evidence of any proceeding or record whatever of, in or before any court in Great Britain, the Supreme Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court or the Tax Court of Canada, any court in a province, any court in a British colony or possession or any court of record of the United States, of a state of the United States or of any other foreign country, or before any justice of the peace or coroner in a province, may be given in any action or proceeding by an exemplification or certified copy of the proceeding or record, purporting to be under the seal of the court or under the hand or seal of the justice, coroner or court stenographer, as the case may be, without any proof of the authenticity of the seal or of the signature of the justice, coroner or court stenographer or other proof whatever.

Certificate where court has no seal

(2) Where any court, justice or coroner or court stenographer referred to in subsection (1) has no seal, or so certifies, the evidence may be given by a copy purporting to be certified under the signature of a judge or presiding provincial court judge or of the justice or coroner or court stenographer, without any proof of the authenticity of the signature or other proof whatever.

See also:

– Section 22 Canadian Evidence Act (Proclamations, etc., of lieutenant governor)

– Section 21 Canadian Evidence Act (Proclamations, etc., of Governor General)