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Category Archives: Evidence
Taking care about time and place data in eDiscovery – things may not be as simple as they seem
Electronic communication makes discovery all so easy, doesn’t it? After all, no less a person than Neil Gorsuch, a justice of the US Supreme Court, was recently mentioned in a Legaltech News article here in these terms: “And it can’t be … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Evidence, Forensic data collections
Tagged Craig Ball
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Hammering the point home – the importance of social media in eDiscovery / eDisclosure
It is only a couple of weeks since I last wrote about the importance of social media in eDiscovery / eDisclosure (When the car sneaks on you and your social media betrays you). I come back to it so quickly, … Continue reading
When the car sneaks on you and your social media betrays you
English barrister Gordon Exall, he of the Civil Litigation Brief who is constantly informative as @CivilLitTweet on Twitter, reports on an interesting finding of fundamental dishonesty in a claim about an alleged motor accident. The judgment is Wise -v- Hegarty & Alpha … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Evidence
Tagged Craig Ball, Gordon Exall
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Ricoh and ACEDS webinar on 8 October: using forensics to track the money
Most of what one reads about the use of forensic tracing of fraud is about the technology. This is neither surprising nor wrong in a world where crime investigators are constantly trying to catch up with technologically-skilled criminals. There is … Continue reading
Posted in ACEDS, Discovery, eDiscovery, Evidence, Forensic data collections, Ricoh, Ricoh eDiscovery
Tagged David Greetham, Mary Mack
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Hot crime scenes, Snowballs and the cloud – AccessData on the collection of evidence anywhere
AccessData has been collecting data for criminal and civil purposes for decades. A lot has changed over that time – not just volumes, and the types and sources of data, but the urgency with which it must be collected and … Continue reading
Fish in a barrel – evidence on social media sends claimant to prison
Last week saw yet another case where evidence on social media contradicted a claim made by a party to litigation. You have to wonder when people will catch on to the public nature of such posts and their implications when … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Evidence, Social Media
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Significant locations in IOS and the spying potential of domestic smart meters
US lawyer and forensic investigator Craig Ball turns up in these pages quite often because he and I have a common interest in the easy availability of evidence from the devices which most of us carry and which, with or … Continue reading
Evidence on smartphones, in photographs and on social media
Today brings us news of a criminal prosecution, for rape, which was withdrawn at trial when a newly-instructed prosecuting barrister first uncovered data on a phone which destroyed the prosecution case. The police knew of the information, indeed had it … Continue reading
Telephone records and contempt of court for false evidence
You do not often think of prisons in connection with the evidence given in civil proceedings, so you sit up when you see a judgment which begins: The Claimant, Accident Exchange Limited (“AE”) applies to commit the Defendants to prison … Continue reading
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More evidence from the Internet of Things – this time a Fitbit
It is about two years since people started predicting that the Internet of Things would become a source of potentially discoverable evidence. At the time, Fitbits recurred as a theoretical example of a device which could yield useful material in … Continue reading
LinkedIn entry as evidence of shadow director status
Lawyers are beginning to get the idea that the definition of a “document” in the discovery rules extends to entries on social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. There remains the perception, however, that these things are relevant only … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Evidence
Tagged Gordon Exall
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