The PILON Mutual Legal Assistance Handbook: Cybercrime & Electronic Evidence has been developed to assist criminal justice practitioners in the Pacific to obtain, and provide, material through mutual legal assistance that critical for criminal investigations and prosecutions. Mutual legal assistance is increasingly important for cybercrime investigations and prosecutions as crime more borderless and transnational in nature.
It provides an overview of cybercrime and electronic evidence, mutual legal assistance processes including specific step-by-step advice on both outgoing and incoming mutual legal assistance requests as well as helpful summary profiles of PILON members, key partner countries and popular service providers with contact information, legislative requirements and hyperlinks.