Secret Recordings 2025

Are there boundaries in our "private" communications? 

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Summer Series 2025
Friday, July 18, 2025
Friday, July 25, 2025

Last Kick at the Can Series 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Friday, December 19, 2025

(Original course date: June 5, 2025)

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Who should attend: All civil litigation counsel, including but not limited to labour and employment litigators and family law litigators. This course will also be of interest to criminal practitioners, both Crown and defence.

Learning level: All levels

We are all citizens of the digital age. With the rise of cellphones and their increasingly powerful cameras, photos and videos are captured and shared in private collections and on social media.

Such recordings are typically done with the knowledge of all the parties to the recording, but what happens when a recording (sound or video) is made secretly without the knowledge of one of the parties? What is the legal status of such "surreptitious recordings"? More importantly, what if one of the parties wants to tender the recording as evidence in civil proceedings?

This concise two-hour program will review the law and issues surrounding such secret recordings and examine two areas where the use of such recordings may arise: family law and labour law. 

Please note that if you plan to attend this course in person, it does not include lunch. However, you are free to bring your own “brown bag" lunch if so desired.

Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 2 hours (this course will contain a minimum of 1 hour pertaining to professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management)

Course Chair
Edward G. Wong — Edward G. Wong Law Corporation, Vancouver

CLEBC Program Lawyer*
Raymond Lee
rlee@cle.bc.ca
*non-practising