CISCRA - Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives
Description: The Law of Evidence in the Digital Environment
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The Law of Evidence in the Digital Environment: Finding Solutions to Present and Future Challenges is a 3-year collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) at the University of British Columbia. supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant.
Legal professionals and scholars recognize that the laws we are applying to the rapidly growing digital reality developed over centuries for a paper-based business environment. The assumptions we make about paper records often do not apply to digital records, and judges and lawyers are not trained in information technology. Despite digital advances, the judicial process still relies heavily on print increasing costs and reducing efficiency. Procedural changes have not addressed this problem so far with the
This research focuses on the ability of rules governing admissibility of evidence to deal with challenges presented by digital information. Its objectives are:
CISCRA - Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives