Clare, you wrote:
> [...] I have a feeling that problems have not surfaced yet because
> there's an absence so far of cases in which scanned documents
> have been used as evidence. The Prof of Internet Law (Lars
> Davies) I mentioned actually said that lawyers were "rubbing
> their hands in glee" waiting for such cases to arise."
I seriously doubt that no such cases have arisen. I am reasonably confident
that printed images of scanned documents are routinely presented as
evidence, that they are not challenged, and that cases are won or lost on
the basis of the printed images having "full" evidential weight. I can't
prove that assertion, for obvious reasons; but a short consideration of teh
sheer number of building societies, banks and mortgage providers, insurers,
Council housing benefit departments and Council Tax departments which now
rely on scanned images (i.e. MOST of them) suggests pretty convincingly that
such cases must now be routine.
If I'm right, by the way, the expectant lawyers will have rubbed their hands
for so long that they will have worn their hands to a frazzle before they
make a fortune from this!
Marc Fresko
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