Objective
The objective of this event is to help legal practitioners tackle
the challenges and difficulties linked to online investigations. The
seminar will provide participants with a thorough understanding of the
internet’s architecture and key concepts. It will then analyse the legal
challenges related to digital investigations, enabling participants to
grasp the complex issues related to admissibility of e-evidence in
court, with a special focus on internet searches.
Key topics
- Technical issues (internet caches, proxy servers, encryption, deep/dark web, etc.)
- Legal issues (evaluation of the search results, reliability and credibility of authentication, search across jurisdictions)
- Challenges posed by websites, social networks, emails, clouds, text messaging and other computer-generated or stored documents
- Presenting internet searches in court: prosecution and defence perspectives
- Internet search results in court: a new evidentiary frontier for the judge?
About the project
This seminar
is part of a large-scale project sponsored by the European Commission
entitled “Investigating Web 2.0: practice-oriented training on internet
searches for EU legal practitioners”. It consists of six
seminars to take place in Lisbon, Dublin, Bucharest, Valletta, Barcelona
and Madrid.
Participation
Please note that due to the large number of applications for this
series on e-evidence, participants can attend only 1 event out of the 6
outlined above.
Registration fee: €200 with no discounts
The number of places available for participants is limited.
Applications will be accepted on a first come, first served basis and
according to nationalities. All applicants will be informed if they have
been selected or not after application has closed.
Travel costs up to €300 and two nights' hotel accommodation up to €130 per night will be reimbursed by ERA upon receipt of the original receipts, tickets, boarding passes, invoices after the seminar.
Participants are asked to book their own travel and accommodation.These
rules do not apply to representatives of EU Institutions and Agencies
who are supposed to cover their own travel and accommodation.
Spanish applicants who work for the prosecution service (CEJ) must apply for this event through CEJ.
Who should attend?
Judges, prosecutors and lawyers in private practice from EU Member States.