| Career | | Eighteen years' experience of the use and misuse of computer data as evidence, including:
Authenticity, Accuracy and Authorship of questioned documents, emails
Forensic procedures for preserving, copying and investigating computer evidence
- Data examination, Reinvestigation of previous computer forensic investigations
- Reliability of documents, records, audit trails, logs from computers/networks
- Requests for Disclosure/ Discovery of computer evidence
- Validity of novel computer forensic techniques and State of the Art
Expert witness in civil (for Claimant and Defendant and as Single Joint Expert) and criminal (for Prosecution and Defence) cases that include:
Computer Misuse Act 1990 Sections 1, 2, and 3 (Time locks, Logic-bombs, and Hacking)
- Confidential information (Data, Databases, Designs, Drawings and Specifications)
- Blackmail, False Accounting, Fraud (Investment, Insurance, Mortgage, Insurance database, Online Banking - £12,000,000, Domain slamming, Domain name registration), Money Laundering
- Breach of contract (Sale of business, Business lease, Supply of computer systems), Negligence (legal advice)
- Internet libel (Web site and E-mail defamation)
- Internet pornography (Possession, Making and Distribution of indecent photographs, pseudo photographs of children)
- Murder, Manslaughter, Kidnapping, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Drugs
Employment (Internet abuse, Racial discrimination, Racist documents)
Perverting the course of justice (Editing, Amending, Fabricating documents in evidence)
- Police computer systems (access control logs, security and event logs, SPOC telephone call records)
Significant cases where he has given expert evidence in court include:
Abuse of Process. Mishandling of computer evidence. For the acquitted Defendants in R v Nicol and Moore (Bristol Crown Court, T19990561)
Child pornography. Appeal against blacklisting of teacher after appeal against conviction allowed by the Crown Court. For the successful Respondent in Andrew Charles Mogford v Secretary of State for Education and Skills (Care Standards Tribunal 2002. 11. PC)
Computer Misuse. Unauthorised modification -" wrecking programs". For the acquitted Defendant in R v Patel (Aylesbury Crown Court, Computers and Law, May 1994)
Employment. Racial discrimination - racist documents. For the successful Applicant in Mr G S Virdi v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (London North Employment Tribunal 2202774/98, Computers and Law, February 2001)
Software Copyright. For the successful Claimant in IBCOS Computers v Barclays Mercantile Highland Finance ([1994] FSR 275)
Prepared to advise pro bono where the misuse of computer evidence may have resulted in a miscarriage of justice.
Instructed as an expert witness in some 200 cases including by Addleshaw Goddard, Allen & Partners, Ashurst, Baker & McKenzie, Beachcroft Wansbroughs, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Bevan Ashford, Bird & Bird, Cartwright King, Clifford Chance, Commission for Racial Equality, Davies Arnold Cooper, Denton Wilde Sapte, Department for Education, DLA, Edwards Geldard, Field Fisher Waterhouse, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Irwin Mitchell, Kennedys, Kidd Rapinet, Lester Aldridge, Lincolnshire Police, Linklaters, Lovells, Maidments, Meldrum Young, Newcastle City Council, Osborne Clarke, Pinsent Masons, Richards Butler, Shoosmiths, Slaughter and May, Taylor Wessing, Treasury Solicitor, Wragge & Co.
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