Evidence

This year represents the last survey period in which the "old" Georgia Evidence Code, Official Code of Georgia Annotated title 24, reigns. The "new" Georgia Evidence Code, which amends the O.C.G.A. and conforms in large part to the Federal Rules of Evidence, takes effect January 1, 2013. Therefore, next year's survey will undoubtedly report the ways in which Georgia courts have coped with the extensive changes. For now, courts continue to apply the existing Georgia Rules of Evidence.

Cases covered in this Article were published between June 1, 2011 and May 31, 2012, and speak to a variety of topics in Georgia business records hearsay exception, the rule of completeness, the scope of expert witness testimony, and spoliation presumptions.