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cxxxix, 934 pages ; 25 cm |
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Contents note continued: Computer-generated evidence and the role of experts -- The digitisation of paper evidence -- Electronic signatures -- Criminal procedure -- Acquisition of evidence -- Electronic images -- Remote evidence -- Digitisation of paper and electronic recording of evidence -- Practical constraints -- Conclusion -- ch. 17 Singapore -- Admissibility of evidence -- Introduction to the Singapore Evidence Act -- Digital evidence and the Singapore Evidence Act -- Relevance and admissibility -- Admitting computer output -- the 1996 regime -- Modes of admissibility for digital evidence -- the 1996 regime -- Authenticating digital evidence -- the 1996 regime -- Admitting electronic evidence -- the new regime -- Authentication and electronic records -- General presumptions of authenticity -- Secure electronic records -- Electronic signatures -- Other enabling legislation -- Primary and secondary evidence -- Weight -- Other rules of evidence -- Civil proceedings -- |
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Contents note continued: Conducting a criminal investigation across state borders -- Before trial -- Encrypted data -- Disclosure -- Destruction of evidence -- Evidence from other jurisdictions -- Trial -- ch. 11 European Union -- Evidence -- Investigations -- Interpretation -- Preliminary investigation proceedings -- Admissibility of evidence -- Civil proceedings -- Criminal proceedings -- Competence -- Mutual recognition in criminal matters -- Mutual assistance in criminal matters -- Criminal investigation and prosecution -- Eurojust -- The European Prosecutor -- Police cooperation -- The challenges of criminal law and procedure -- European arrest warrant -- European evidence warrant -- European investigation order -- ch. 12 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China -- Law of evidence in general -- Sources of law -- Types of evidence -- Primary and secondary evidence -- Electronic records -- Electronic and digital signatures -- Admissibility -- |
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Contents note continued: Confidentiality and legal professional privilege -- Criminal proceedings -- Before trial -- Disclosure -- Destruction of evidence -- Trial -- ch. 10 England & Wales -- Introduction -- Evidence -- Direct and indirect evidence -- Real evidence -- Best evidence -- Primary and secondary evidence -- Admissibility -- Weight -- Document -- Book or paper -- Instrument -- Writing -- Record -- Electronic signatures -- Hearsay -- Exception to the hearsay rule: Bankers' Books -- Civil proceedings -- Criminal proceedings -- Presumptions -- Computer-generated animations and simulations -- Video-recorded and tape-recorded evidence -- Data protection -- Freedom of information -- Enterprise Act -- Civil proceedings -- Disclosure -- Obtaining disclosure from third parties -- Disclosure from foreign countries -- Search orders -- Service -- Authenticity of evidence -- Confidentiality and legal professional privilege -- The expert witness -- Criminal proceedings -- |
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Contents note continued: Data destruction -- Falsifying data -- Hiding data -- Attacks against computer forensics -- Trail obfuscation -- Reviewing the intellectual framework -- ch. 3 Proof: the investigation, collection and examination of digital evidence -- Introduction -- Guidelines for handling digital evidence -- Subject areas of expertise -- Handling digital evidence -- Identifying digital evidence -- Gathering digital evidence -- Preserving digital evidence -- Analysis of digital evidence -- Tools -- Traces of evidence -- Reporting -- Future considerations -- ch. 4 Authenticating digital data -- Introduction -- Issues to be taken into account for the authenticity of electronic documents -- General considerations relating to authenticity -- Technical considerations relating to authenticity -- Organisational characteristics -- Towards an understanding of authentication -- Judicial approaches to the authentication of digital data -- |
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Contents note continued: Discovery -- The role of the solicitor and client -- Third parties -- Non-disclosure and its consequences -- Costs -- Urgent search and seizure orders -- The use of forensic tools and the expert witness -- Criminal proceedings -- Investigations -- Search warrants -- Disclosure -- Admissibility -- Illegally obtained evidence -- ch. 18 South Africa -- Background -- The Computer Evidence Act of 1983 -- The UNCITRAL Model Law -- The ECT Act of 2002 -- Data messages and their admissibility -- Requirements for a data message to be admissible -- Original form -- Production -- Authenticity -- Hearsay and its exceptions -- Exception provided by the Law of Evidence Amendment Act -- Exception where the author of a data message is not available -- Exceptions for business records -- Data messages as real evidence -- Doubts about accepting data messages as real evidence -- Reliability of data messages -- Graphics, audio, and video -- Computer programs -- |
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Contents note continued: Documents and peculiarities of admissibility -- Electronic signatures -- Reconstructions, simulations and experiments -- Hearsay -- The expert witness -- Civil proceedings -- Discovery -- Inspection -- Costs -- Urgent search and seizure -- Privilege -- The privilege against self-incrimination -- Specific relationship privileges -- Privileges arising from relationships of trust and confidence -- Criminal proceedings -- Search warrants -- Search and Surveillance Act 2012 -- Disclosure -- ch. 16 Scotland -- The Scottish legal system -- The nature of the law -- The court system -- The Scots law of evidence -- Common law principles -- Legislative innovation -- divergence of civil and criminal rules -- Perceived problems surrounding the admissibility of electronic evidence -- Civil proceedings -- Acquisition of evidence -- The presentation of electronic evidence in court -- Electronic documents -- Electronic images -- Remote evidence -- |
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Contents note continued: Examples of computer-generated visualisations in England and Wales -- Computer-generated visualisations in Australia -- Issues arising from the use of computer-generated visual images in court -- The effect of the use of computer-generated visual images in court -- Advantages and disadvantages of computer-generated visual images in court -- Recommendations regarding the use of computer-generated visual images in court -- Introducing computer-generated animations and simulations into legal proceedings -- The factual foundation -- The underlying scientific or technical theory -- Authenticity of the simulation -- Prejudicial effect -- Concluding remarks -- ch. 8 Australia -- Introduction -- Relevance and admissibility -- The ̀best evidence' rule -- The expert witness -- Electronic transactions and electronic signatures -- Civil proceedings -- Pre-commencement powers -- Destruction of evidence -- Urgent search and seizure orders (Anton Piller orders) -- |
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Contents note continued: Interception centres and the Office for Interception Centres -- Interception directions -- Decryption directions -- Evidence from other jurisdictions -- Search warrants -- Evidence obtained without the required authority -- Using electronic equipment in court -- Electronic forensics -- Interpreting the law of evidence -- Conclusion -- ch. 19 United States of America -- Introduction -- Admissibility -- Authentication -- Hearsay -- Civil proceedings -- Pre-filing investigation and retention -- Discovery -- Sanctions for spoliation -- Criminal proceedings -- Before trial -- Disclosure -- Destruction of evidence -- Evidence from other jurisdictions -- Trial |
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Contents note continued: Jurisdiction for civil proceedings -- Jurisdiction for criminal cases -- Jurisdiction for international cases -- Civil proceedings -- Before trial -- Summons and discovery -- Costs -- Criminal proceedings -- Investigation -- Search and seizure of digital evidence -- Cyber forensics in India -- ch. 14 Ireland, Republic of -- Evidence -- Electronic signatures -- Hearsay rule -- Authenticity -- Recent legislative developments -- Civil proceedings -- Anton Piller Orders -- Discovery -- Privilege -- Hearsay -- The best evidence rule -- Unlawfully obtained evidence -- Right of witnesses to give evidence by live television link -- Criminal proceedings -- Before trial: Obtaining evidence in criminal proceedings -- Disclosure and preservation of evidence -- Evidence from other jurisdictions -- Admissibility of evidence at trial -- ch. 15 New Zealand -- Introduction -- Evidence -- Types of evidence -- Document -- Presumptions and evidence produced by machine -- |
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Contents note continued: The role of expert witnesses -- Hearsay -- Rules of production of electronic evidence -- Civil proceedings -- Business records -- Weight -- Criminal proceedings -- Pre trial -- Records admitted under s 22A, EO -- Evidence by way of live television link or video recording -- Disclosure -- Authentication -- Evidence from other jurisdictions -- Dealing with documents at the end of proceedings -- ch. 13 India -- Law of evidence -- Information technology law in India -- Amendments to the Evidence Act -- Types of evidence -- Parameters for evidence to be admissible -- Admissibility -- Relevance -- Appreciation -- Authentication and presumptions -- Miscellaneous provisions -- Amendments to the Banker's Book Evidence Act, 1891 -- Notice by electronic means -- Amendments to the IT Act -- Authentication of electronic records -- Digital Signature and Electronic Signature -- Recognition of electronic records -- Jurisdictional issues in India -- |
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Contents note continued: Witnesses and expert witnesses for data messages -- Evidential weight of data messages -- Presumptions in favour of data messages -- Presumption in favour of advanced electronic signatures -- Presumption in favour of data messages made in the course of business -- Common law presumption in favour of public documents -- Guidelines for assessing the evidential weight of data messages -- Records and confidentiality -- Duty to keep records -- Confidential information -- Data messages in civil proceedings -- Urgent search and seizure (Anton Piller) orders -- Discovery in terms of the High Court Rules of Court -- Access to information in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act -- Evidence improperly obtained -- Expert witnesses -- Costs -- Limiting the use of digital evidence -- Electronic service and filing papers -- Data messages in alternative dispute resolution -- Data messages in criminal proceedings -- |
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Contents note continued: ch. 5 Mechanical instruments: the presumption of being in order -- Introduction -- Presumptions -- Proof of reliability -- Problems with software -- Of the use of language and ̀bugs' -- The nature of ̀reliable' -- Re-introduction of the presumption -- Challenging the presumption -- ̀Working properly' -- Concluding remarks -- ch. 6 Encrypted data -- Introduction -- Methods to obtain decrypted data -- Refusal to reveal the key -- England & Wales -- United States of America -- Defence application to disclose encrypted data: Canada -- Encrypted data: the UK statutory regime -- Surveillance Commissioner -- The infrastructure -- Disclosure of a key -- Failure to comply with a notice -- Tipping off -- ch. 7 Using graphical technology to present evidence -- Introduction -- Basic court technology -- The effect of using visual evidence -- Technology -- Examples of computer-generated visualisations in the US -- Virtual reality technology in US courts -- |
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Contents note continued: Discovery -- Confidentiality -- Privacy -- Criminal proceedings -- Pre-trial -- Seizing electronic evidence from a computer at the premises -- Seizing electronic equipment -- Evidence that may be taken from a computer -- Electronic evidence that is seized -- Damage to electronic equipment -- Warrants to enter -- Admissibility -- Defects in warrant -- Seizure of evidence relating to other offences -- Offences for breaches of privacy -- Disclosure -- Regulatory bodies -- ch. 9 Canada -- Introduction: The Canadian legal landscape -- Admissibility and weight -- Types of evidence -- Primary and secondary evidence (relevance) -- The rules of evidence -- Electronic documents -- Best evidence rule -- Web-based evidence -- Electronic signatures -- Computer-generated animations and simulations -- Video-tape and security camera evidence -- Freedom of information and privacy -- Civil proceedings -- Before action -- Discovery -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The sources of digital evidence -- Introduction -- The computer -- The components of a computer system -- Data storage facilities -- Data formats -- Starting a computer -- Types of evidence available on a computer -- Files and logs -- Documents and files created or modified by the purported user -- System and program files -- Temporary files and cache files -- The legal consequences of the temporary files and cache files -- Deleted files -- Handheld devices -- Networks -- Types of network -- Types of application that run on a network -- Concluding remarks -- ch. 2 The characteristics of electronic evidence in digital format -- Introduction -- The dependency on machinery and software -- The mediation of technology -- Speed of change -- Volume and replication -- Metadata -- Types of metadata -- Social context and metadata -- Storage media -- Illicitly obtaining confidential data -- Anti-forensics and interpretation of evidence -- |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Computer files -- Law and legislation -- Commonwealth countries.
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Electronic discovery (Law) -- Commonwealth countries.
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Electronic evidence -- Commonwealth countries.
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Electronic discovery (Law)
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Electronic evidence.
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Electronic records -- Law and legislation -- Commonwealth countries.
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Evidence, Documentary -- Commonwealth countries.
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| Author |
Mason, Stephen (Barrister), editor of compilation
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| ISBN |
140577987X |
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9781405779876 (hardback) |
