CrimeThe police seized a personal computer together with diskettes, a CD, video tapes and printed material from the Defendants home. An police inspection of the CD and diskettes found numerous images (some deleted from the diskettes) that appeared to have been obtained from the Internet. The Defendant was charged with making indecent images.
Defence counsel requested a report that showed that one or more of the diskettes was "second hand", that it is not possible to discover the date that files were deleted and that the Defendant's computer was not equipped to write to a CD.
I attended the two day trial and was not required to give evidence.
Case ReportCivilThe Claimant, Mr C, bought a laptop computer from the Defendant, Company D. The hard disk in the computer failed after twenty-six months. Company D supplied two replacement disks and Mr C was unable to get either disk to operate correctly in the computer.
My report discusses the reliability to be expected from computer components and the technical and other issues involved with the replacement of the hard disk in a laptop computer.
Case ReportCrimeThe police seized a personal computer from the Defendants home. An police inspection of the computer found numerous images that appeared to have been obtained from the Internet. The Defendant was charged with making indecent images.
Defence counsel requested that an appeal judgement regarding images in the browser cache (Atkins vs. DPP, 2000) should be taken into account during preparation of the report.
The CPS decided not to proceed shortly after receiving this report.
Case ReportCrimeThe police seized several cable TV decoders and a computer and produced a report that described how allegedly incriminating software on the computer could have been used in the modification of cable TV decoders. The defendant was charged with theft of cable TV decoders, receiving stolen cable TV decoders and with modifying a cable TV decoder.
I inspected the computer and produced a report that described all of the content of the computer and described the allegedly incriminating software in context. Each item of allegedly incriminating software was also discussed in the report to show, where possible, if the software had a use that was not related to cable television.
I attended each day of the trial and after four days of prosecution evidence, all of the charges were reduced to a single absolute offence of being in possession of an unauthorised cable TV decoder.
Case ReportCivilThe defendant bought a laptop computer from a company under a finance agreement. Subsequently, the defendant stopped making payments under the finance agreement and the finance company took legal action. The computer company was joined to the action when it was alleged that the computer was faulty.
I inspected the computer and found that the hard drive had been formatted and that this had deleted the content. I was able to recover the content using specialist software and described the content in my report. I also tested the computer and reported upon its operation.
Case ReportCivilThe Claimant, Ms C, bought a computer from the Defendant, Company D. Ms C subsequently experienced problems when using the computer to connect to the Internet. The problems included slow connection speed and lengthy periods of inactivity.
My report discusses the symptoms of the problem and the possible causes. The various attempted remedial actions are also discussed and conclusions drawn from these actions.
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