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UK minister hints at change in controversial legal presumption on computer evidence

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Lord Stockwood says work underway to bring issue to ‘logical conclusion.’

A longstanding and controversial legal presumption in the UK that computer evidence is correct unless there is explicit evidence to the contrary may be about to be overturned. A formal amendment to the rule was put forward in a House of Lords debate earlier this month, and that has now

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