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UK evidence and records law
UK evidence and records law compliance checks
English law on proving records in court, from the Statute of Frauds 1677 to the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023: business records certificates, computer evidence, electronic signatures, custody and how long to keep records.
19 controls, each a live check with a tamper-evident receipt. Run the whole framework at once from any AI assistant with sebbi_run_framework and framework=ukevidence.
- Statute of Frauds 1677 s.4 - guarantees signed and kept
- Evidence Act 1938 s.4 - proper custody of records documented
- CEA 1995 s.8 - copies can be proved identical to the original
- CEA 1995 s.9 - records made in the ordinary course of business
- CEA 1995 s.9 - officer named to sign a business records certificate
- CJA 2003 s.117 - each record shows who supplied the information
- CJA 2003 s.129 - human inputs to the system are recorded
- Computer evidence presumption - evidence the system worked correctly is kept
- Computer evidence presumption - records checkable without trusting the system owner
- ECA 2000 s.7 - records sealed or electronically signed
- ETDA 2023 s.2 - records protected against unauthorised change
- ETDA 2023 s.2(5) - system independently audited
- Limitation Act 1980 s.5 - contract records kept >= 6 years
- Limitation Act 1980 s.11A - product records kept >= 10 years
- Companies Act 2006 s.388 - accounting records kept >= 6 years
- CPA 1987 s.4(1)(e) - state of the art at release evidenced and dated
- CRA 2015 s.34-36 - AI digital content matches its description
- CPR PD 57AD - records preserved with metadata for disclosure
- UK GDPR Art.22A-D - automated decisions logged with a route to a human