CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Writings
......Summaries of Voluminous Records
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Summaries of voluminous documents not inadmissible under best evidence rule, provided originals available.

Contents of voluminous records may be presented by summaries, provided originals are available for inspection.

Schedule of assets, partially based on non-admitted evidence, was admissible as general compilation of documents that could not be examined individually by court without great loss of time. (EC §1523 (d).)

Summary of voluminous business record admissible.

Report which relies on verbal hearsay and other inadmissible evidence, as well as records review, not admissible as summary of voluminous records.

Proponent of summary of voluminous documents must establish admissibility of underlying documents.

Safeguards to be utilized when summaries are introduced.

Cases dealing with computer-generated summaries of voluminous documents.