Certificate in Introduction to Electronic Evidence and the Law

Keeping up with the times, requisite amendments were made to Indian laws in the year 2000 with introduction of the Information Technology Act, 2000 ('IT Act'), which brought in corresponding amendments to existing Indian statutes to make digital evidence admissible. Digital evidence or electronic evidence is any probative information stored or transmitted in digital form that a party to a case use in a court proceeding. It can be found in e-mails, digital photographs, ATM transaction logs, word processing, documents, instant message histories, files saved from accounting programs, spreadsheets, internet browser histories databases.

The Certificate in Introduction to Electronic Evidence and the Law highlights the amendments incorporated in the Indian legislations after the enactment of the I.T. Act, with respect to electronic evidence, by means of video lectures by Scriboard Advocates and Legal Consultants, in association with Enhelion.

WHAT WILL SET YOU APART?

Enrolling for the certificate programme will enable you to:

• Get a better understanding of the topics by being mentored by various practicing lawyers
• Get lifetime access to the recorded lectures which are stored in Enhelion’s database for any future reference
• Interact with the Enhelion team on one-to-one basis at various intervals
• Get assessed on the basis of online submission of assignment

The curriculum is designed to provide an overview of the legal framework regulating electronic evidence in India. It highlights how the jurisprudence of admissibility of electronic evidence has evolved over the years after the enactment of the Information Technology Act. It further analyses various provisions relating to electronic evidence and electronic records. It also examines the role played by the Indian judiciary in the admissibility of electronic evidence.

The following modules are covered under the course [Video lectures only]-

• Module 1:Introduction to electronic evidence
• Module 2:Overview of laws regulating electronic evidence in India
• Module 3:Admissibility of electronic evidence
• Module 4:Electronic evidence and the Indian judiciary

Rodney D. Ryder is the founding partner at Scriboard and is a leading technology, intellectual property and corporate lawyer. He is the author of Guide to Cyber Laws: the Information Technology Act, 2000, E-Commerce, Data Protection and the Internet, the first section-wise analysis of the Indian Information Technology Act, 2000. He is presently Advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India on the implementation of the Information Technology Act, 2000.Mr. Ryder has been nominated as a 'Leading Lawyer' in intellectual property, technology, communications and media law by Asia Law, Who'sWhoLegal, Asia Legal 500, amongst other International publications. Mr. Ryder is also advisor to the Data Security Council of India [a NASSCOM initiative] on the structuring of industry data privacy and information security policies and contractual standards. His second book, Intellectual Property and the Internet, published by LexisNexis is perhaps the only one of its kind in Asia. The text has been acknowledged to be an authoritative work by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and has been quoted in the first and only judgement by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on domain names. He is advisor to the National Internet Exchange of India [NiXI] and a member of the panel of independent and neutral arbitrators with NiXI.

In every walk of life, the process of evaluation takes place in one form or the other. If the evaluation process is eliminated from human life then perhaps the aim of life may be lost. Being in the same line, Enhelion is committed to evaluate the process of learning through its courses.

The enrollee will be evaluated based on a Project Assignment, which would test the analytical understanding of the topics covered in the video lectures. 

The most intriguing aspect of the evaluation process is the time flexibility it affords. You can choose to undergo the evaluation process as and when you are ready for the same.

To be eligible to receive a certificate after successful completion of the course, one is required to secure an overall minimum of 40 percent in the Project Assignment.

Scriboard is a full service commercial law firm specialising in Information Technology and Intellectual Property and related services. The firm is legal counsel to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India and to the National Internet Exchange of India [NIXI], which manages the .in [Indian Country Code Top Level Domain Extensions]. They are also India Counsel to a leading social networking website, major oil and technology companies. They advise the Central Bureau of Investigation [CBI] on Internet Security and Cyber Crimes.