Computer & Internet Expert Witness - Civil Criminal Employment - Reports Summary

<body> <table border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="120" bgcolor="#FFFFCC"><font color="#0000FF" face="Arial"><img border="0" src="TopBannerComputer.gif" width="118" height="100" align="absmiddle"></font></td> <td valign="middle" align="center"> <h1 style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"><font color="#0000FF" face="Arial">Graham Dilloway <span style="font-variant: small-caps">MBCs</span></font></h1> <h1 style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="center"><b><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#000000">Computer Consultant and Expert Witness</font></b></h1> </td> </tr> </table> <p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Reports</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="4"><b>Criminal Reports</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Indecent Images of Children</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Images were found on a CD and on diskettes.  My report discusses the absence of a device to write to a CD and evidence to show that the diskettes were "second hand". <a href="Docs/ReportDisketteBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Images were found in the "Temporary Internet Files" (the cache).  My report was written with an Appeal Court judgement in mind (Atkins vs. DPP, 2000).  <a href="Docs/ReportInternetBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Images were found on the hard disk and on a Zip disk.  My report discusses whether the images could have been innocently copied without the images being viewed.  <a href="Docs/ReportZipBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>Others</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Credit card counterfeiting.  Equipment for making credit cards and supporting documents (on paper and on computer disk) and a lot of cash and jewellery were seized by the police.  <a href="Docs/ReportCardBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Illegal modification of Cable TV decoders.  A computer containing a lot of allegedly incriminating material was seized by the police.  My report suggests that much of the material was not very incriminating or innocuous.  <a href="Docs/ReportInspectBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Illegal copying of music CDs.  The police seized a computer allegedly used for bulk copying of CDs.  My report discusses the speed of operation of the computer and CD writer.  <a href="Docs/ReportCDCopyBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p> <font face="Arial" size="4"><b>Civil Reports</b></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">The claimant bought a laptop computer and the hard disk failed after 26 months.  My report discusses replacement of hard disks in laptop computers. <a href="Docs/ReportCaddyBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">The claimant bought a laptop computer and subsequently claimed that the computer was faulty.  I report on my inspection of the laptop computer.  <a href="Docs/ReportLaptopBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">The claimant bought a computer and subsequently claimed that the computer would not connect to the Internet properly.  My report discusses Internet connection problems, their causes and their effects.  <a href="Docs/ReportNetBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">The claimant bought a computer for use with an add-in card and claimed that the computer would not work with the add-in card.  I tested the computer (and its three replacements) and reported on the result of the tests.  <a href="Docs/ReportTestBackground.htm">More</a>...</font></p> <p><b><font face="Arial" size="4">Employment</font></b></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2">I have worked in Employment cases.  The reports produced in these cases are not reproduced here because of the complexity and the circumstances of the cases.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Technology</b> - A serving police officer was the subject of disciplinary proceedings after several officers received racist documents via the police force internal mail service.  I assisted in the preparation of reports that discussed the large amount of technically sophisticated computer evidence gathered and reported upon by prosecution computer specialists.  Reports for an internal inquiry and a subsequent Employment Tribunal hearing included analysis of software generated log files and attempts to recreate computer files that matched printed documents.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Disability Discrimination</b> - I prepared a report to show that the implementation of voice recognition software would have been a reasonable step to assist a disabled person using a computer.  The report was for a disability discrimination hearing before an Employment Tribunal.  I gave evidence at the hearing for two days including most of the second day under cross examination.  An added challenge was a tribunal chairman with a good working knowledge of computers who insisted upon an exceptionally detailed explanation of almost everything.</font></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </body>