Objective
The overall objective of this event is to provide legal
practitioners with an understanding of the challenges and difficulties
linked to online investigations. The seminar will first provide
participants with a basic understanding of the internet architecture and
concepts. It will then analyse the legal challenges related to digital
investigations, enabling participants to grasp the complex issues
related to the admissibility of internet search results in court.
Key topics
- Open source intelligence tools
- Encryption v. privacy
- Transborder access to data
- e-Crime: how criminals (mis)use the Internet
- Open source tools and online investigations
- Presenting internet searches in courts
About the project
This seminar
is part of a large-scale project sponsored by the European Commission
entitled “Investigating Web 2.0: practiceoriented 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
contemplated in the series: Lisbon, Dublin, Bucharest (2018) and
Valletta, Barcelona and Madrid (2019).
Priority will be given to those participants who did not attend an ERA
event on e-evidence / online investigations / investigating web 2.0 in
2017/2018.
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 €165 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.