CBA Lecture: Can we really rely on electronic evidence?

Thursday 20th March
18.00 – 19.00
Online

• Failing to subject the evidence to competent analysis before relying on it to prosecute.
• Relying on the integrity of electronic evidence without establishing the veracity of the evidence.
• Assuming that electronic evidence is reliable, thereby refraining from performing any further preparation or analysis.

Introduction: Paul Jarvis, Chair, CBA Education Committee 

Speaker: Stephen Mason

Stephen Mason no longer practices as a Barrister. He is, with Professor Daniel Seng, the co-editor of the open-source leading practitioner text Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (5th edition, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies for the SAS Humanities Digital Library, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2021) See https://uolpress.co.uk/book/electronic-evidence-and-electronic-signatures

Speaker: Professor Harold Thimbleby

Professor Harold Thimbleby is a well-known speaker – and has been involved in and spoken widely on issues like the Post Office Horizon scandal and NHS criminal cases. He is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, and wrote the leading textbook on digital patient safety, Fix IT (Oxford University Press, 2021) which won a best-book award from the British Medical Association who said everybody in healthcare should read it. The book Fix IT covers numerous miscarriages of justice, where nurses were victims of broken digital systems. See https://www.harold.thimbleby.net/booklet

The access link for this talk will be circulated on the day of (20th March)