Elliott Goldstein, B.A., LL.B. is a Toronto area
lawyer who practices civil and commercial litigation and consults
to the alarm and security industry.
He is a member in good standing of the Law Society
of Upper Canada and has been practicing law in Ontario since
1988. Prior to that he was a member of the Bar of British
Columbia since 1984.
Mr. Goldstein's interest in the application of
video technology to the legal process began in 1980 when he was
in law school in Saskatchewan. His father, then a Saskatoon
lawyer (and now a Judge of the Provincial Court of Saskatchewan),
suggested to Elliott that he combine his interest in photography
and video technology with the study of the law. Following that
good advice, Mr. Goldstein wrote one of the first articles ever
published in Canada (in 1981), on the use of videotape to record
and present evidence in civil and criminal courts.
Since then, Mr. Goldstein has written and
published over one hundred articles and two books on the topic of
videotape and photographic evidence. These articles have been
published in Canada, the United States, England, and South
Africa. Mr. Goldstein has lectured extensively throughout Canada
on the legal aspects of video surveillance to local, provincial
and national police forces. He has given seminars at the
Canadian Police College in Ottawa and at the Justice Institute of
British Columbia in Vancouver. In addition he teaches the
law and legislation portion of the Applied Forensic Videography
Course given at the Ontario Police College in Aylmer (near
London, Ontario).
Mr. Goldstein’s latest book entitled Visual
Evidence: A Practitioner's Manual was published in 1991 by
Carswell Legal Publishers and is updated twice yearly. It has
grown to two volumes and contains chapters on the law of video
surveillance of criminal suspects, casino surveillance, and video
conferencing.
