Gnoseological and legal nature of digital evidence in criminal process

Journal Title: Правова позиція - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue

Abstract

Scientific and technological progresses since the middle of the last century have made the means of electronic computing equipment an integral part of our existence. The rapid development of telecommunication technologies affected not only the everyday life of each individual and society as a whole – it affected the legal aspects of the present, in particular the institute of evidence. Informatization of society, together with its undeniable achievements, brought in our lives a whole series of negative phenomena that are associated with the unlawful use of electronic computing equipment facilities and telecommunications. Therefore, more and more urgent becomes the need for the use of information recorded in digital form, as a special type of evidence. This article explores gnoseological and legal nature of digital evidence, analyzes the current state of development and proposes ways of legislative regulation of the use of digital information as evidence in the criminal procedural law of Ukraine, in particular, determining the place of digital evidence in the system of procedural sources of evidence.

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О. П. Метелев

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О. П. Метелев (2018). Gnoseological and legal nature of digital evidence in criminal process. Правова позиція, 1(), 75-86. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-600665