Retired barrister Stephen Mason has been writing, editing and maintaining a legal practitioner’s handbook on electronic evidence since 2007. The latest edition, Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (eds.), Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures, University of London Press, 2021, is available open-access at https://uolpress.co.uk/book/electronic-evidence-and-electronic-signatures/

Stephen was also editor until 2024 of the open-access journal Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review, published by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/issue/archive

Both the practitioner’s handbook and the DEESLR journal contain a number of articles relevant to, and on, the Horizon scandal, in particular the common law Presumption that computers behave reliably unless their is evidence to the contrary. Stephen has compiled a list of relevant readings and has graciously agreed to let it be published here: