Extract from Lee Swales’ article “Electronic Evidence – a Necessity in Almost Every Legal Dispute”
Independent Online reported this week that the child abuse case of a Durban mother has been provisionally struck from the roll. The case cannot continue until evidence from the mobile phone which captured footage of the alleged events has been returned to the court from the SAPS cybercrime unit in Pretoria.
This is a puzzling and somewhat infuriating turn of events. In this case, there is no need to wait for the SAPS cybercrime Unit to analyse and/or comment on the video.
