FOONG’S MALAYSIA CYBER, ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW

As technology evolves at lightning speed and digitalisation spreads across businesses and people’s lives, a new perspective and a new approach is needed to tackle the issues that come along with emerging technologies. It is natural to expect more and more cases relating to cyberlaw and information technology to be filled in court and even more so to expect digital evidence to be tendered in court.

Foong’s Malaysia Cyber, Electronic Evidence and Information Technology Law is the only book on cyberlaw and electronic evidence in Malaysia. Carrying more than 200 local cases and some selected foreign cases with commentaries, this publication looks at areas that have evolved in the digital sense such as civil issues like defamation, privacy and copyright. Current and very much relevant issues such as instant messages, social media postings, admissibility of electronic evidence in industrial relation disputes and digital asset cases are also discussed. Chapters have been devoted to legal practice and technology, the digital economy, electronic signature and electronic commerce.

This illuminating text provides valuable guidance in emerging areas of law. Its structure is held together by a carefully crafted set of headings to ensure that the text is easily accessible. The inclusion of references to many previously unreported cases, including some decisions of the Sessions Court, certainly lends depth to the analysis and discussion in this book.

This practical title is useful for litigators who are involved in matters concerning electronic evidence, information technology and cyberlaw and will be a valuable guide through its carefully structured commentary and insightful analysis.

Table of Contents

1- Civil Matters

2- Cybercrime

3- Admissibility of Computer-Generated Documents

4- Presumption of Fact in Publication

5- Instant Messages, Social Media Postings & Other Electronic Evidence

6- Electronic Evidence in Industrial Relation Disputes

7- Electronic Evidence in Family Disputes

8- Discovery

9- “.MY” Domain Names

10- Legal Practice and Technology

11- Digital Economy

12- Electronic Commercial Transactions

13- Electronic and Digital Signatures

14- Digital Assets

15- E-Commerce