The Book

Digital Evidence & eDiscovery Law Practice in Nigeria

Chapter 6

Electronic Document and Admissibility Foundation

Having laid the necessary and specific foundation for the admissibility consideration when handling digital evidence in court, it becomes expedient to provide and consider the processes that require the application of the enumerated admissibility foundation. These processes run from Chapter 6 to Chapter 16 and are herein summarized. Given what constitutes document in the digital hemisphere and the inherent problem in its nature, Chapter 6 specifically examines electronic document and its admissibility.