Electronic evidence plays a growing part in legal process

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An article by Gordon Smith appearing on the Silicon Republic website.

This article touches on the first eDiscovery conference held in Ireland, which just concluded.

The article states, "Most legal cases in Ireland now involve electronic evidence but there is still a range of different ways in which it is handled, a conference heard yesterday.

E-discovery Ireland 2011, which was held in Dublin, is the first such event in this country to look at the growing area of digital evidence in civil and criminal litigation."

Of interesting note the author states, "Email is considered in every case involving digital evidence, the survey found, followed by laptop and desktop PCs (95.2%). Shared file servers are investigated in 85.7% of cases. Interestingly, only two-thirds of cases involve a mobile device like a BlackBerry or iPhone, and backup systems containing historical data are checked in fewer instances: 61.9%".