Windows Forensics Cookbook

What can we do to make things easier for ourselves in the meantime?

Scoping out a case before taking it on is good practice regardless of its size or relative importance, but this becomes even more pertinent when international factors might be involved. These may have an impact on the time it takes to acquire evidence: for example, if you are looking to extract data from a server in another country, or even another state, you will need at least a basic understanding of the requirements necessary to gain access to it, and indeed whether this is even possible in the first place.

It is, of course, impossible to have an in-depth understanding of the various bits of legislation that are relevant to digital forensic investigations around the world. ...