One of your proposed solutions, speaking of affidavits, is the affidavit method, where an affidavit from one jurisdiction and one trial could be used in another. And you indicated, at least hypothetically, that often defence counsel will not have instructions to admit, but they won't take issue. But if the client is sophisticated enough to tell his defence counsel to object to either the admissibility of the affidavit or to cross-examine on the affidavit, aren't we right back to where we are right now?
