Digital Evidence from Cloud Collaboration Platforms: Authentication, Admissibility and the Cross-Border Conundrum

Introduction : Commercial disputes are increasingly being decided by the messages exchanged on collaboration tools, the version histories of shared documents, the access logs recording who viewed or edited a file, and the audit trails of the platforms recording each administrative action. Yet the very attributes that lend these evidence value in disputes – their volume, dispersion and potential storage on servers in any jurisdiction – also render them legally precarious. This blog addresses...