Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures / / Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng, editors, contributors Burkhard Schafer [and nine others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Mason, Stephen,; Seng, Daniel,; Schäfer, Burkhard,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : University of London Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: Fifth edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (lxiv, 539 pages)

In this updated edition of the well-established practitioner text, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng have brought together a team of experts in the field to provide an exhaustive treatment of electronic evidence and electronic signatures. This fifth edition continues to follow the tradition in English evidence text books by basing the text on the law of England and Wales, with appropriate citations of relevant case law and legislation from other jurisdictions. Stephen Mason (of the Middle Temple, Barrister) is a leading authority on electronic evidence and electronic signatures, having advised global corporations and governments on these topics. He is also the editor of International Electronic Evidence (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2008), and he founded the innovative international open access journal Digital Evidence and Electronic Signatures Law Review in 2004. Daniel Seng (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore) is the Director of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, AI and the Law (TRAIL). He teaches and researches information technology law and evidence law. Daniel was previously a partner and head of the technology practice at Messrs Rajah & Tann. He is also an active consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization, where he has researched, delivered papers and published monographs on copyright exceptions for academic institutions, music copyright in the Asia Pacific and the liability of Internet intermediaries.

Table of Contents

The sources and characteristics of electronic evidence and artificial intelligence / Steven J. Murdoch, Daniel Seng, Burkhard Schafer and Stephen Mason -- The foundations of evidence in electronic form / Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng -- Hearsay / Daniel Seng and Stephen Mason -- Software code as the witness / Stephen Mason -- The presumption that computers are reliable / Stephen Mason -- Authenticating electronic evidence / Luciana Duranti and Allison Stanfield -- Electronic signatures / Stephen Mason -- Encrypted data / Alisdair Gillespie, Jessica Shurson and Stephen Mason -- Proof : the technical collection and examination of electronic evidence / Nigel Wilson, Andrew Sheldon, Hein Dries, Burkhard Schafer and Stephen Mason -- Competence of witnesses / Stephen Mason and Lynne Townley -- Appendix 1: Draft Convention on Electronic Evidence -- Appendix 2: Cumulative vignettes.