8.01-417.1 - Use of portions of documents in evidence. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-417.1. Use of portions of documents in evidence.

To expedite trial proceedings in civil cases, upon appropriate and timelymotion by counsel, the court may permit the reading to the jury, or theintroduction into evidence, of relevant portions of lengthy and complexdocuments without the necessity of having the jury read or receive the entiredocument. The court, in its discretion, may permit the entire document to bereceived by the jury, or may order the parties to edit from any such documentadmitted into evidence information that is irrelevant to the proceedings.

(1992, c. 720.)