Computer Generated Evidence In Court
Introduction
We are living in what is usually described as an 'information society' and as
the business community makes ever greater use of computers the courts are going
to find that increasingly the disputes before them turn on evidence which has at
some stage passed through or been processed by a computer. In order to keep in
step with this practice it is vital that the courts are able to take account of
such evidence. As the Criminal Law Revision Committee recognised, 'the
increasing use of computers by the Post Office, local authorities, banks and
business firms to store information will make it more difficult to prove certain
matters such as cheque card frauds, unless it is possible for this to be done
from computers' (CLRC 1972, para 259).
Admissibility
The law of evidence is concerned with the means of proving the facts which are
in issue and this necessarily involves the adduction of evidence which is then
presented to the court. The......
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