You will find this workbook essential in assisting you to evaluate your information management system, and to demonstrate compliance to the Code of Practice for Legal Admissibility and Evidential Weight of Information Stored Electronically.
The workbook enables an historical audit trail of compliance to be achieved, and, once achieved, it should be stored on the same information management system that it is auditing.
Compliance points that are often found to be missing from systems are:
- no information policy document
- no retention schedule
- inappropriate security controls
- lack of procedural documentation
- insufficient control on document input procedures
- insufficient information about the technology from the system supplier
- use of inappropriate facilities, such as image clean-up
- no thought of future migration requirements
- lack of documentation on audit trail content and access procedures
Each of these could potentially compromise the ability to demonstrate the authenticity of the stored documents.
Also available
This book is available as part of the Legal Admissibility Collection CD
A set of guidance and workbooks offer best practice, practical advice on the legal admissibility of electronic information.