Sentences with phrase «media evidence»

That's the reason legal seminars focused on understanding and using social media evidence in court have become so prevalent: lawyers want to learn all they can about this important topic.

My caution is that we do not treat social media evidence in the same way.

So I don't think we can ever take humans out of the equation as far as treating social media evidence as any other kind of digital evidence.

Based on keywords, concepts, and analytics, we can find social media evidence relevant to any case that may be before you.

We do not endorse the judge's view that electronic media evidence is of no value unless supported by expert evidence.

Unfortunately, in the context of social media evidence, the question of authenticity can be a challenging one.

«We see social media evidence in conspiracy cases all the time now,» he said.

As the use of social media evidence at trial continues to grow, some courts are beginning to delve into the ethical boundaries of obtaining such evidence and even a lawyer's ethical obligations to provide competent representation.

That's why we invited attorney and social media evidence consultant Scott Malouf to discuss in our upcoming webinar: 1) how to use social media in your cases and 2) the top legal issues clients face when they get social.

When I first started looking around for social media evidence gathering tools last year, I found ones set up for archiving and evidence gathering on a large scale.

X1 also just released their whitepaper on the topic: «Overcoming Potential Legal Challenges to the Authentication of Social Media Evidence for eDiscovery.»

Mar. 15, 2018), ruled that social media evidence authentication requires, at a minimum:

As Cypis converts the 18th Street Gallery into her personal research lab, the room will become a visual platform of text, image, props and media evidencing overlapping patterns in Cypis» seminal investigation on engagement across personal and cultural differences.

Here are several important rulings regarding the duty to preserve social media evidence from 2013:

And I think that criminal courts here have some of the jurisprudence I've seen demonstrates a stricter interest in the nuts and bolts of adducing social media evidence because of course there's a liberty interest at stake and making sure the evidence fits I think is a higher bar to me.

Under the following facts, is the social media evidence admissible?

And on that note, here is a social media evidence checklist with basic steps and strategies for helping litigants and litigators to avoid goof ups, courtesy of the folks at Ellwood Evidence Inc. (excerpt reproduced with permission):

The admissibility of social media evidence at trial is another interesting issue.

In the presentation, we looked at the use of Social Media evidence in court and other administrative tribunals.

Yesterday in the latest MyCase legal webinar, attorney and social media evidence consultant, Scott Malouf, talked about one of the most popular topics on both the MyCase blog and for attorneys today: social media.

Certainly if you are concerned with hardening your case against attack, a conscientious approach to social media evidence gathering can only help you.

That's what I'm seeing as I dust off and update my precedents and old slides on social media evidence for a webinar I'm rebooting this June.

Below, you will find my slideshow from the presentation, as well as some additional information and helpful links that I promised to upload, including the sample request for production of documents I use for requesting social media evidence in discovery.

In 2011 he established the agency Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary team of investigators that provides advanced architectural and media evidence to civil society groups such as truth commissions, courts and human rights reports.

Further interest was sparked when the trial of three people facing trafficking and prostitution charges was halted due to crucial social media evidence having not been disclosed.

Based on the Garacci v Ross decision, if the defence lawyer brings a motion for the production of social media evidence, the Plaintiff's counsel should prepare an Affidavit summarizing what each photograph depicts on their Facebook profile.

Recently I published here a case comment on a Quebec tribunal decision involving the admissibility of social media evidence.

It's not the first time this has been canvassed here on Slaw, as John Gregory's post from earlier this year attests, but since I recently prepared materials for a webinar on social media as evidence, and in the course of that started a trial run of X1 Social Discovery (which is what the Department of Justice, RCMP, and at least two major Canadian law firms are using to gather social media evidence), I thought I'd chime in.

Further interest was sparked when the trial of three people facing traffickingandprostitution charges was halted due to crucial social media evidence having not been disclosed.

During the webinar, attorney and social media evidence consultant, Scott Malouf, discussed everything lawyers need to know about about using social media evidence in court, including the practicalities and ethical issues.

Because of this, the adjuster scoffed at our demands and we were forced to resolve the matter for far less than it would have been worth but for the social media evidence.

Forget referring to «spoliation of electronic or social media evidence.»

Also, how to obtain and preserve social media evidence?

«However, it was exactly this social media evidence that defence lawyers had to examine in order to secure the exoneration of Liam Allan [who was falsely accused of rape and whose trial collapsed after three days when it emerged the police had failed to disclose crucial evidence].»

«Their justification for this cut is that electronic and social media evidence is not always relevant to the complexity of the case,» he said.

As one US jurist, the Hon. Paul W. Grimm, wrote in a paper on «Authentication of Social Media Evidence», «While there are multiple evidentiary issues that affect the admissibility of any electronic evidence, the greatest challenge is how to authenticate digital evidence.»

Social media evidence is often admissible in court and is a potent weapon used by defense lawyers when disputing the merits of a plaintiff's personal injury claim.

So I actually helped co-write our CEB, our Continuing Education of the Bar, section of our evidence manual here, Sam, in California on social media evidence.

Such actions understandably give rise to privacy concerns, but, as the vast majority of social media evidence that can be applied in litigation is freely available, having unthinkingly been posted, it is likely that for the time being at least, social media will continue to change the way lawyers litigate by providing a further stream of evidence to support or undermine their clients» cases.

Although social media evidence is used to undermine a party's claim, lawyers need to be alert to the fact that people frequently portray a certain image online that is not a true representation of their life.

It is imperative to have a tool like Social Evidence to forensically collect and analyze the vast troves of social media data to build our cases and to perform our legal duties to preserve, collect, and produce relevant social media evidence.»

«As an experienced litigator and eDiscovery partner in a major law firm, I learned firsthand that social media evidence is often case critical.

While it is true that some Canadian courts have adopted a more nuanced and restrictive approach to the admissibility of social media evidence, it appears that most are open to admitting social media as evidence if it is both relevant and material to the case.

Here is the sample language from the discovery request I use to obtain social media evidence in motor vehicle accident cases:

One of the last topics discussed was social media evidence.

Nate, social media evidence lawyers of litigation, where is counsel in the judiciary in Canada with respect to social media evidence?

In my opinion, just like social media evidence, this is another potential wave of electronic evidence that attorneys will seek out.