PROGRAM

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

17:00-17:30 End Of Seminar – Certificate of Attandance Ceremony

TOPICS

Our digital world in legal context

1. Introduction to digital evidence

• What we mean by digital evidence
• The changes that affect the law
• The historical view point
• Paper and digital
• Sources of electronic evidence
• The need for a conceptual change
• Characteristics of electronic evidence
• Some challenges
• Testing for authenticity
• Towards an understanding of authentication
• Tests for data from complex systems
• Substantive evidential issues
• Proof: evidence and forensics

2. Electronic signatures

• Some reasons for using a signature
• Judicial response to signatures
• Forms of a signature
• Forms of electronic signature
• Types of digital signature (the hash cryptographic signature)
• Symmetric Key
• eSignatures: concluding remarks

3. eBanking

• The duties of the customer
• The PIN: what can be done
• Examples of negligence by the customer from Germany
• The negligence of the bank
• The duties of the bank
• Methods used by criminals to steal
• EU Directive
• Attitudes to evidence: e.g. Norway
• Relevant evidence: audits of the banking systems
• Audits are important evidence
• Ups and downs in banking cases

4. E-mail, social networking and the internet at work

• The business perspective
• The liability
• The business – legal interaction
• Controlling access to data
• Example: how e-mail is used
• Defamation
• Altering contract terms
• Sexual discrimination
• Racial discrimination
• Criminal offences
• Some examples from social networking
• Retention of documents
• Legal concepts for eDocuments
• Observations
• Tensions

5. The future: eDisclosure/eDiscovery

The eternal triangle