A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW ON DIGITAL EVIDENCE ADMISSIBILITY: METHODOLOGIES, CHALLENGES AND RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

Abstract

—Admissibility of Evidence is the eligibility of particular pieces of evidence for inception as part of the evidence in a case. Admissibility means the character or quality to be accepted and allowed to be presented or introduced as evidence in court. To be admissible means capable of being legally admitted or allowable or permissible as evidence or worthy of gaining entry or being admitted. This study focus on carrying out a systematic literature review and meta-analysis on Digital Evidence Admissibility. The methodology employed in this study was the querying of four academic database resources systematically and fundamentally identifying kinds of literature related to digital evidence admissibility through identification, screening, eligibility and inclusion criteria. The advantage of this study is revealing the gap and trends in digital evidence admissibility as the article published between the period of 2015 through 2018 are relative with the following variation 64%, 21% 7%, for the following respectively, IEEE, Science Direct, ACM Digital library, as well as Research Gate. While at the period under review, 2019 is yet to record publication in the field of research in Digital Evidence Admissibility. The period under review witnessed a low academic publication in the field of Digital Evidence admissibility. This research will aid in projecting future research in the aforementioned research field