It's safe to
say electronic evidence — text messages, digital photos, cloud storage, and the internet of things — will be involved in every new case you have.
Issues include mastering data analytics, gathering social media posts and communications, preservation of electronic communications and even technology that significantly aids in the presentation of
said electronic evidence.
Not exact matches
Yet by now, officials
said, intelligence analysts would also have expected to have culled from
electronic intercepts of overseas conversations at least some secondary
evidence that the Russians might be involved — suspicious telephone or email conversations, suggestive messages, movements of Russian agents — something.
They
say new information developed through the collection of
electronic and forensic
evidence.
«There is insufficient
evidence available to determine whether
electronic monitoring helps to reduce re-offending or promote rehabilitation,» the MPs
say.
But Peter Brocklehurst, Professor of women's health at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit,
says «the more we use
electronic fetal monitoring, the more harm we do, with little
evidence of benefit.»
Professor Peter McOwan from QMUL's School of
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and co-author of the study,
said: «This research is important, as it provides further
evidence that computers can be used as aids in creative tasks.
«I teach my students that e-mail equals «
electronic eternal
evidence,»» she
says.
Complex
electronic evidence can be crucial in court and ignorance can be costly,
says Greg Wildisen
The authors of the article
say that the statute should provide rules on the weight given to
electronic evidence.
«These days almost everything is digital, so it's hard to believe you can provide competent representation by ignoring
electronic evidence,» Waxse
says.
The Uniform
Electronic Evidence Act says how to apply the «best evidence» rule (which normally requires an original document, or a good explanation for the absence of the original) to electronic
Electronic Evidence Act says how to apply the «best evidence» rule (which normally requires an original document, or a good explanation for the absence of the original) to electronic do
Evidence Act
says how to apply the «best
evidence» rule (which normally requires an original document, or a good explanation for the absence of the original) to electronic do
evidence» rule (which normally requires an original document, or a good explanation for the absence of the original) to
electronic electronic documents.
«The law of e-discovery has largely been driven by a handful of federal judges who realized early on [that]
electronic evidence was going to be a big issue in their courtrooms,» she
says.
He was recently involved in a case in which Francis had to sanction the defense for failing to preserve
electronic evidence, something Batson
says is actually very hard to prove.
That
said, there is a great, free solution for attorneys wishing to preserve
electronic evidence on a hard drive.
Mobile Clearwell, the company
said, «is the first processing and review platform that can be transported to the data where it resides — versus transferring data internationally and leaving it subject to regulation — eliminating the complexity of international e-discovery and reducing the cost and risk associated with processing and exporting
electronic evidence across multiple countries.»
In addition to the mega trials, he
said the rising use of
electronic communication of
evidence, increased resources in police investigations, and even the increase in Crown attorney hirings have created a massive uptake in demand that the static numbers of judges and courtrooms can't handle or accommodate.
Heuristica Discovery Counsel is offering lawyers a suite of litigation software, and the tech and legal support necessary for handling
electronic evidence,
says Duncan Fraser, its co-CEO and senior counsel.
«If you have suspicions of fraudulent activity, do damage control first — secure and safeguard all potential sources of
evidence (paper and
electronic) for an investigation,»
says Peter Vakof, CA, investigation and computer forensics partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, in Toronto.