Hi Horst
> I wouldn't think such a silly but reasonably harmless situation could escalate
> to people actually lying in court.
You clearly have not been around lawyers enough! This sort of stuff has a real potential to go very pear shaped very quickly - and then entrenched positions emerge and you wind up with something like the Lebanon war before you know it...(Truth is always the first casualty of war etc - legal or actual in my experience)
Cheers
David
---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Health IT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:37:11 +1000, Horst Herb wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 09:38, Tim Churches wrote:
>> Good idea, but from an evidentiary point of view, you need to send us the screenshots as well so that we can collectively or individually attest to the
>> fact that the MD5 digests correspond to unaltered screenshots. Otherwise (playing Devil's advocate here and anticipating the argument which might be put in
>> court by AMH's legal counsel), we have no way of knowing whether these MD5 digests are for screenshots which have already altered to suit your devious
>> needs.
>>
>
> If I claim I have seen something and cannot provide any more evidence than my memory, the judge is more likely to put the onus of proof onto me I presume.
>
> If I bring forth some evidence that at least at face value does not appear dodgy, I would presume that the onus of proof might shift towards the other side,
> which would leave them red faced.
>
> In any case, I doubt it would be an issue.
>
> I still think they made a simple mistake,and maybe one person in their management seemed to think for a (wrong) moment that it is more important to save his
> own face (fat chance he can) rather than admitting the mistake and correcting the cause.
>
> I wouldn't think such a silly but reasonably harmless situation could escalate to people actually lying in court.
>
> Horst
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