FOR THOSE of you who are involved in personal injury cases, you will no doubt have at some time seen a remark or recommendation that a client requires an orthotic opinion or orthotic report.
The first things, in my experience, that will cross a solicitor’s mind when coming across the word ‘orthotics’ for the first time are most probably listed below and in a similar order
THE NATURAL and logical starting point in the investigation of a crime is at the scene where it all happened.
The scene might not necessarily be a single location, however; a body killed in one place and dumped in another immediately provides two loci, and the route between them and mode of conveyance yet two more at least.
ELECTRONIC Discovery (or E Discovery) refers, simply, to the examination of electronically-held information. It may include computer-held databases, email stores or mobile phone text messages.
It was not too long ago that when authorities raided a company’s premises, vans had to be hired to remove dozens of filing cabinets. The investigating organisation, meanwhile, had to make space in their premises for a huge volume of paper-based records.
SINCE THE BIRTH of Napster in the late 1990s the media have bombarded us with horror stories involving peer-to-peer file sharing. Whether they be stories about music and video piracy, viruses, child pornography or national security, the reality is that peer-to-peer file sharing is here to stay and these technologies are changing the way we work, the way we play, the way media providers distribute their content and, of course, the way we break the law.
So what exactly is ‘file sharing’? Put simply, it is a method of connecting computers together so that files can be ‘shared’ on one computer, and a user of another computer on the same network can search for and copy that file to their own computer.
A RECENT report by the Fraud Advisory Panel revealed that the average length of a serious fraud investigation between 2002 and 2006 totalled 33 months, costing the British taxpayer around £100m a year to fund in Legally Aided cases.
In the FAP’s document, Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of Fraud, particular attention was paid to two common pitfalls in fraud investigations: first, difficulties faced in focusing the investigation during the early stages; second, containing the issues that arise when handling large volumes of seized material.
