Hi Daniel, Well as i mentioned before, precedent is still being set here and the amount of cases taken to court is still quite small. I know the police here use several tools but mainly encase. We use our own software tools written and developed in-house over the last 8 years by our team of programmers for forensic and recovery work. Becuse of this we can build pretty much anything into them we like / require and we feel this gives us far better results then any third party product we've looked at due to the fact we can customise the product to the case at hand depending on what is required. The main problem we find with presenting evidence is explaining technical details in a fashion that can be clearly understood by non-experts, which is im sure is a problem around to the world with our type of work. Adam Daniel Tech Consultant ForensicDataService. On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, daniel heinonen wrote: > Hi all, > > I was just wondering if anyone knew about Australian laws regarding hearsay > or even acceptable programs to be used in a case. As most of the documents > i have read on the topic so far state that as long as the person and the > process is trust worthy and reproducible then it should stand up fairly > well in court. Has any one had any troubles in court due to negligence or > the tools they have used? I would be particularly interested about > Australian cases however its always fun to read American replies : ) > > Regards, > daniel heinonen > computer systems officer > Queensland University of Technology
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