Re: @ArrZarr
The part where adequate protections may have been in place on the computer itself but stripped during the upload by somebody the barrister trusted.
I was umming and aahing about adding that bit about the password protection but it's not inconceivable that it could have been protected and lost that protection.
@David Neil On the note of whether I would be happy if it were my data? Of course I wouldn't be happy but I certainly wouldn't be going as far as demanding pounds of flesh from said barrister which was the post I was calling out as going a bit far.