The Validity and Admissibility of Electronic Evidence in Cybercrime Cases

THE VALIDITY AND ADMISSIBILITY OF ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE IN CYBERCRIME CASES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, ONLINE FRAUD, CYBERLAUNDERING AND OTHER CRIMES

	Prague, 5-6 June 2014 Objective This seminar, mainly sponsored by the European Commission, will discuss the validity and admissibility of electronic evidence in cybercrime cases. Key topics Practical challenges relating to the collection and use of electronic evidence when cyber offences are committed Legal implications of electronic evidence (collection, evaluation and admissibility) in criminal proceedings Practical problems that prosecutors and judges have to deal with to prosecute and adjudicate cybercrime cases Legal challenges for the defence Overview of good practices in various EU Member States Electronic evidence in child pornography, online fraud and cyberlaundering cases Conditions of participation Registration fee: 100 EUR Travel costs up to €300 and accommodation for two nights (4-6 June 2014) up to €155 per night will be reimbursed by ERA upon receipt of the original receipts, tickets, boarding passes, invoices after the seminar. Please note that these rules do not apply to representatives of EU Institutions and agencies who are supposed to cover their own travel and accommodation. Participants are asked to book their own travel and accommodation. Further information and online registration
	Organiser: ERA (Laviero Buono) in cooperation with the Czech Bar Association Language: English Event no.: 314DT08   Speakers: Jurgen Coppens, Public Prosecutor, Office of the Public Prosecutor, Dendermonde, Belgium Josef Donat, Partner, Rowan Legal, Prague Klaus Hoffmann, Public Prosecutor, Office of the Prosecutor, Freiburg Stephen Mason, Barrister and Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London Antonín Mokrý, Vice-President of the Czech Bar Association (CBA), Prague Jonathan Taylor, Research Fellow, Lancaster University; Child Safeguarding and Internet Safety Expert, London Tatiana Tropina, Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg Philippe Van Linthout, Investigating Judge, Court of First Instance, Mechelen, Belgium

Improving Measures Related to Detention Conditions at EU Level

IMPROVING MEASURES RELATED TO DETENTION CONDITIONS AT EU LEVEL BEST PRACTICE, LEGISLATION AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION’S GREEN PAPER

	Strasbourg, 13-14 February 2014 Objective This final seminar in a series co-funded by the European Commission will focus on the EU’s Green Paper on detention and the ongoing debate and developments surrounding it. Key topics The EU Green Paper on the application of EU criminal justice legislation in the field of detention The European Parliament's proposal to harmonise legislation on detention throughout Europe Effective national supervision of detention conditions Good practices in prison management Conditions of participation Registration fee: 165 EUR  Travel costs up to €300 (including taxi costs) and accommodation for two nights (12-13 February) up to €90 per night will be reimbursed by ERA upon receipt of the original receipts, tickets, boarding passes and invoices after the seminar. Further information and online registration
	Organiser: ERA (Ramin Farinpour) Languages: English, German Event no.: 314DT12   Speakers: Lena Axelsson, Chairperson, European Prison Education Association; Swedish Prison and Probation Administration, Norrköping Jesca Beneder, Legal Officer, Procedural Criminal Law Unit, Directorate-General for Justice, European Commission, Brussels Dr Peter Bennett, Director, International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS), London Carmen Comas-Mata Mira, Director, Spanish Ombudsman, Madrid Ramin Farinpour, Course Director, European Criminal Law, ERA, Trier Kirsten Hawlitschek, Executive Director, EuroPris, The Hague Justyna Róża Lewandowska, Director, Human Rights Defender, Warsaw Michaël Meysman, Doctoral Researcher, Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Ghent University Dr Helmut Roos, Head of Section, Member of the Committee of Federal States, National Agency for the Prevention of Torture, Wiesbaden Alex Tinsley, Law Reform Officer, Fair Trials International (FTI), London Wouter van Ballegooij, Criminal Justice Advisor, Greens/EFA Fraction, European Parliament, Brussels

Joachim Vogel

It is with great sadness that we note the death, at the age of 50, of our friend and colleague Professor Joachim Vogel, who since 2012 had held a chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Economic Criminal Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. His many interests included European criminal law, on which he had published and lectured in English as well as in German. He was very active in all areas of European criminal law; but a particular interest was the proposed European Public Prosecutor, of which he was an advocate. On 26 June of this year he was one of the speakers at a conference organised by ECLA(UK) on deferred prosecution agreements, on which he gave the German perspective in a brilliant presentation. His Powerpoint slides for this are available on this website, under Events.

On 17 August he was killed in a tragic accident in Venice when the gondola in which he and his family were riding was in collision with a vaporetto. We offer our deepest sympathy to his wife and his young family. 

Electronic Evidence in Fraud Cases

Date: 5th November 2013, 2:00pm-5:30pm

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

An event programme is available to download.

Update on Friday, November 8, 2013 at 2:44PM by Tony Wilson

The following resources are available from this event:

• Powerpoint: "EU Privacy and Data Protection" - Christopher Docksey;
• Powerpoint: "Electronic banking and how courts approach the burden of proof: a comparative discussion" - Stephen Mason;
• Powerpoint: The challenges of cloud-derived evidence - Professor Ian Walden.

Deferred Prosecutions: Coming to the UK and Already Up and Running Elsewhere in Europe

Date: 26th June 2013, 2.30pm-6.00pm

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

An event programme is available to download.

Update on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 1:39PM by Tony Wilson

The following resources are available from this event:

• Powerpoint: "Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Up and Running in Germany?" - Joachim Vogel;
• Powerpoint: "UK DPAs" - Patrick Rappo;
• PDF: "DPAs: The Reality and the Rhetoric" - Lila Sujanani.

The European Public Prosecutor: coming soon to a country near you? @IALS 20 May

Date: Monday 20th May 2013, 2.00pm

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Registration: Please complete the registration form.

"The European Union Act 2011 requires a referendum in the UK before we can appoint an EPP here; but other member states may do so without our participation. Why would they want to, and how would we work with such an official if he were to be appointed? The European Union Act 2011 requires a referendum in the UK before we can appoint an EPP here; but other member states may do so without ourparticipation. Why would they want to, and how would we work with such anofficial if he were to be appointed?"

Update on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 11:38AM by Tony Wilson

An updated event poster is now available with further details.

Update on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 2:31PM by Tony Wilson

The programme is also available to download.

Update on Friday, May 24, 2013 at 4:18PM by Tony Wilson

The following resources are available from this event:

• Powerpoint: "An EPP Working With UK Authorities - Practical Issues" - Mike Kennedy;
• Powerpoint: "The European Public Prosecutor's Office" - Katalin Ligeti.