R. v. Henderson, 2010 ABPC 295 (CanLII)
[26] The Court of a Appeal of Alberta in R. v. After Dark Enterprises Ltd. 1994 ABCA 360 (CanLII), (1994) 94 C.C.C. (3d) 574 in dealing with a similar issue commented at page 576 as follows:
“The learned trial judge says that the prosecution cannot call any other evidence if real evidence on the same point was available to be seized and was not seized. That extends the best evidence rule far beyond its original purpose, which was simply to avoid fraud and forgery, into a large alteration of practice and procedure in courts today. We do not accept it.”