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Affidavits

Affidavits Canada

Affidavits are fairly simple, straightforward documents, but nevertheless ones that demand a skilled legal professional’s touch to be effective. Contact Mandeep Saggi at Saggi Law Firm for such legal needs.

In a court of law, an affidavit serves as a party’s request amid a case or dispute for the court to take a specific action on the party’s behalf.

Typically citing existing rules or precedents governing the proceedings, a lawyer typically begins the affidavit process by interviewing a deponent with compelling, meaningful accounts of events to which the affidavit relates, including any vital paper or electronic documentation, including but not limited to:

  • Contracts
  • Receipts
  • Written correspondence
  • E-mails
  • Invoices

Typically, affidavits will be limited in scope to the deponent’s factual statements from personal knowledge and potentially other testimony that could be provided under oath.

Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.