| In any legal proceedings before the court of law, the | | | | court of law.The information produced in the form of a |
| application of the rules of evidence apply so as to | | | | data message shall be given due evidential weight as |
| accept the admissibility of a data message in | | | | comparison with paper based evidence irrespective |
| evidence, the ground which data message and | | | | fact of non-admission before court and their inability to |
| electronic communication be accepted before courts | | | | interpret the same because technicality of evidence. In |
| and how the course of legal proceeding best evidence | | | | evidence what ever form it is produced must fulfill |
| can be produced and admitted. The civil proceeding it | | | | certain assessment standards and the electronic |
| is the legal obligation shouldered on plaintiff to produce | | | | message must be given same the evidential weight as |
| electronic evidence and plaintiff adducing it could | | | | paper based evidence, there are various factors they |
| reasonably be expected to obtain and produce before | | | | have to rely on the manner in which the data |
| the court on the grounds that it is in its original form. | | | | message was generated, stored, communicated and |
| The admission of electronic often not accepted as | | | | produced before the court of law. The integrity of the |
| computer based file or records, the plaintiff have to | | | | information the manner it is recorded by authenticated |
| produce it, some how, he has to produce into paper | | | | authorities and the manner in which its originator was |
| based form for acceptance as evidence before the | | | | identified, and any other relevant factor . |