Chapter 1 begins with an overview of the law of evidence in pre-digital age. It examines the old fashion conversation of the law of evidence in legal proceedings; the concept of document as originally conceived from the common law perspective. It advanced the notion that the pre-digital Evidence Act and its legal frameworks were devised in an analog age when cross-border communication was rare and online communication and social media were unheard of and where legal framework simply did not contemplate a world in which electronic data transfer, whether international or local, are commonplace.
DECFI is poised to deliver the necessary skills to Legal Communities Within The African Bar: The Judiciary; University Law Faculties; Law Schools; In-House Corporate Counsel And Other Leading Industry Participants, in the development and acquisition of the technical knowledge in meeting the demand of the critical domain of emerging eDiscovery and digital evidence.