A note on our Creative Commons licence
The authors, the editors and the publisher have collectively continued to make available the fifth edition of Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures under a Creative Commons licence. We made this carefully considered decision because we want to promote a better understanding of electronic evidence, and wish to facilitate the greater accessibility and availability of our combined scholarship. We commend the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, for its strong and continued support for academic education, learning and scholarship and the advancement of knowledge.
Free legal resources on the Internet
Most readers familiar with the common law will be aware of some of the free legal sources on the Internet. For the uninitiated, the World Legal Information Institute (http://www.worldlii.org) is a good start. Many of the more recent cases cited in this book, but by no means all, are available on the various independent jurisdiction-specific websites that are linked to the World Legal Information Institute, which in turn is coordinated by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (http://www.austlii.edu.au), the first of its kind. Note also The Free Access to Law Movement (http://www.falm.info). Additional links can be found on any university library website, including the website of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London. It must be emphasized that the free sources of case law that are available are not comprehensive.
Citations of websites
Readers will be familiar with the changing nature of URLs. Every effort has been made to ensure, where a URL is given, that it was live at the time of publication.
References have been made to Wikipedia on the basis that this source is relatively accurate for information of a technical nature. Readers will be aware that these pages are open to being updated and changed regularly. Although it is sometimes customary to provide the date a page was last viewed on the Internet, it is taken as a given that the reader does not need this information, given the dynamic nature of the Internet.
Practitioner texts
Practitioner texts are cited without reference to the date in the body of the text. This is because the practitioner texts that are cited are updated each year. It is suggested that the reader checks the updated version of the text if they are going to rely on any comments, given that citation of such texts in this publication fixes the year of publication, but this may change between editions.
Errors and omissions
While we, our authors and the publisher have tried hard to ensure all typographical and other errors have been corrected, we are aware that we might have missed some. For this reason, we will be delighted if you let us know if you notice an error. In addition, if you detect any relevant case law, legislation, guidelines or reports that we have missed, we will appreciate it if you inform us of any helpful and pertinent materials.