Practice question
A civil electronic record is offered through a witness who understands the display but knows nothing of data input, preservation or export. Another witness familiar with those functions identifies specific integrity failures. Counsel says the first witness’s confident reading conclusively outweighs the technical explanation. Which is correct?
- Rule7 allows examination of actual system familiarity and the identified integrity issues
- Confidence alone determines all electronic weight
- Only reading aloud establishes system knowledge
- The display’s font resolves integrity
- All admitted electronic records have equal weight
Legal references
- Rules on Electronic Evidence, Rule7 Sections1–2, civil proceedings: https://lawphil.net/courts/supreme/am/am_01-7-01_sc_2001.html
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