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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)
• Presenting internet searches in court: prosecution and defence perspectives
• Procedural issues and jurisdictional conflicts
• Remote investigations

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 €135 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.