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Cybercrime is one of those areas that interest people straightaway because of the title.
It sounds very techie though and that misleads people slightly because really it means any
sort of case that involves a computer whether it's an offence through or using a computer.
Pure cybercrime offences are ones where people use a computer and target a computer for example
stealing someone's online bank details or hacking into a computer to get personal data
but then on top of that you have also got the spectrum of offences which can now use
a computer as part of the evidential trail so at one end you have got somebody whose
abusing someone on Twitter or being abused on Twitter and of course its cybercrime and
you can see that but at the other end, driving offences could be included in that, assault
cases, organised crime all rely to some extent these days on computer evidence.
I have seen a case where the crucial evidence involves the cell-site data. Cell-site data
involves where a mobile phone communicates with a mast nearby after the event and you
can use that data to work out where the phone was and it made that call so again the computer
data was crucial, it's not a cybercrime in the sense that it involves hackers but that
evidence meant that person was convicted and got life imprisonment.
Computers are something that I deal with every day so it means I am particularly familiar
with it and as soon as I look at a document if it involves computer data I would very
quickly know where I am with it and know where the weaknesses are, if they are there all
the strengths depending on what the data is but from my point of view and I come from
a science background I find it interesting where things can't be changed after the event,
maths is a pure subject and one that I find particular interesting because the answer
is either there or it isn't. The computer data for the same reason is good. From a clinical
point of view all you have to do is find the answer if it's in there, it's in there.
There aren't many lawyers who do this and especially there aren't many lawyers who it
to the level that I do it. I have got a client base from the southernmost part of England
right up to the North and to Scotland so I do have a national client base and I am one
of the few solicitors in the country who can profess to being a pure cybercrime expert.
When you have been looking at documents day to day and you have reaching a point where
you can go into court to finally go in, win it on a technical point and walk out with
a client smiling behind you, you know you've had a good day at the office.