[LINK] LawTechTalk Seminar Series - Friday 11th, 1:00 pm, UNSW

David Vaile d.vaile at unsw.edu.au
Tue Aug 8 18:26:48 AEST 2006


Dear colleagues,


A reminder that the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre would be delighted
if you were able to join us at the first LawTechTalk seminar in the new
UNSW Law building this Friday:

"Digital evidence: Issues for lawyers, judges and scholars, and what's
coming over the horizon"

Speaker: Stephen Mason, Director of the Digital Evidence Research
Programme, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Date: Friday 11 August 2006
Time: 1-2 pm
Venue: Room 101, level 1, new Law Building, UNSW lower campus
URL:  <http://cyberlawcentre.org/2006/talks/ltt_mason.htm>
http://cyberlawcentre.org/2006/talks/ltt_mason.htm 

The networked world surrounds us - lawyers, judges and legal scholars
need to understand the nature of digital evidence because it now affects
all their clients, from the simple issue about proving somebody did
something to show they intended to enter into a contract digitally
(under the generative term 'electronic signature') to e-mail
correspondence forming the basis of a murder charge, as in the case of
Dr Alathea Foster, who was found guilty earlier this year of causing
grievous bodily harm to Julie Simpson after discovering a series of
e-mails on her husband John Foster's computer. <
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2149947,00.html>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2149947,00.html>

This talk will include other notable examples of the use of digital
evidence in courts.

Our speaker, Stephen Mason, is a Senior Research Fellow at the British
Institute of International and Comparative Law, and Director of the
Digital Evidence Research Programme: <
<http://www.biicl.org/index.asp?contentid=1010>
http://www.biicl.org/index.asp?contentid=1010> Stephen practised at the
Bar in the UK, particularly IT, e-business and e-risks, and taught at
the Inns of Court.

Stephen is currently writing a new book for lawyers entitled Electronic
Evidence, and recently published 'Electronic Signatures in Practice' in
JHLT
<http://law.suffolk.edu/highlights/stuorgs/jhtl/publications/V6N2/Mason.
pdf>. He is the author of Electronic Signatures in Law (LexisNexis
Butterworths, 2003); E-Mail, Networks and the Internet: A Concise Guide
to Compliance with the Law (xpl publishing, 6th edn, 2006); the
electronic and digital signatures editor and author of Chapter VI
'Electronic and Digital Signatures' for the practitioner loose-leaf
textbook by M-T. Michele Rennie International Computer and Internet
Contracts and Law (Sweet & Maxwell), and the general editor of the
Digital Evidence Journal, incorporating the e-Signature Law Journal. He
is an Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced
Legal Studies, a member of the IT Panel of the General Council of the
Bar of England and Wales, and the correspondents panel of Computer Law
and Security Report. 

Entry is free. Coming from off campus? If possible please RSVP to
feedback at cyberlawcentre.org.

Best wishes

David

 




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