This indispensable guide provides you with a clear understanding of Consular procedures and important legalization procedures and fees for more than 180 nations worldwide and all U.S. states and territories. You'll also receive the addresses, and phone and fax numbers for each listing. You will save time by not having to search for information that is crucial to the completion of international transactions. The specific requirements for Embassies and Diplomatic Missions in the United States are presented in clear and precise terms. Easy-to-follow instructions will help you avoid confusing regulations wherever you are doing business.

Digital forensics and multimedia forensics are rapidly growing disciplines whereby electronic information is extracted and interpreted for use in a court of law. These two fields are finding increasing importance in law enforcement and the investigation of cybercrime as the ubiquity of personal computing and the internet becomes ever-more apparent. Digital forensics involves investigating computer systems and digital artefacts in general, while multimedia forensics is a sub-topic of digital forensics focusing on evidence extracted from both normal computer systems and special multimedia devices, such as digital cameras. This book focuses on the interface between digital forensics and multimedia forensics, bringing two closely related fields of forensic expertise together to identify and understand the current state-of-the-art in digital forensic investigation. Both fields are expertly attended to by contributions from researchers and forensic practitioners specializing in diverse topics such as forensic authentication, forensic triage, forensic photogrammetry, biometric forensics, multimedia device identification, and image forgery detection among many others. Key features: Brings digital and multimedia forensics together with contributions from academia, law enforcement, and the digital forensics industry for extensive coverage of all the major aspects of digital forensics of multimedia data and devices Provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of digital forensics of multimedia data and devices Offers not only explanations of techniques but also real-world and simulated case studies to illustrate how digital and multimedia forensics techniques work Includes a companion website hosting continually updated supplementary materials ranging from extended and updated coverage of standards to best practice guides, test datasets and more case studies

Highlights - Latest Standard Operating Procedures, circulars and notifications updated till October 2021. - Faceless Assessment, Appeal & Penalty procedures covered in FAQs format. - Faceless ITAT and E-filing of ITAT appeals. - Practical Issues with tips and solutions. - Legal Issues covering majority case laws on Faceless assessments and appeals. - Sample formats of grounds of appeal, statement of facts, affidavit, condonation etc. - Keys to drafting and specimens of legal submissions. Visit https://bit.ly/GuidetoFacelessAssessment for latest updates. About the book This book is a handy guide providing practical guidance on the recently introduced faceless assessment and appeal procedures. The book covers technical and procedural aspects of Faceless Assessments, Faceless Appeals, Faceless Penalties and Faceless ITAT. The book analyses the provisions minutely and presents in a simplified formats with FAQs, comparative tables and char ts. The step-by-step guide of procedures would be appreciated both by practitioners and laymen. The schemes being fairly new, have several teething issues in functioning of assessment and appeals, and therefore, the author has attempted to decode most common issues and give some probable suggestions to combat the same. There are some legal grey areas, amidst the faceless assessment and appeal schemes being constitutionally challenged in courts of law, such issues have been discussed at length. With the advent of digital convergence between different government departments, there is an added responsibility on professionals to be more cautious in submitting and drafting of submissions. The author digs deep into relevance of drafting submissions and interplay of income tax proceedings with other allied laws. This book strikes a perfect combination of legislation and practical nuances on this piloting topic. It is a recommended read for ever y professional, practitioner, academician and students of law and accountancy. About the author Kinjal Bhuta is a Chartered Accountant and Law graduate by qualification with more than 10 years experience in corporate and international taxation. She advises and represents corporates and high networth individuals on various tax matters including tax structuring, transfer pricing and compliance related matters. She has authored several articles for tax journals and online publications and written a monograph on 'Presumptive Taxation u/s. 44AD, 44ADA and 44AE' for Bombay Chartered Accountants Society (BCAS). An avid speaker, she has addressed various seminars across India held by ICAI and other bodies of professional importance. She is a faculty on Income Tax for Post Qualification Certificate Course on 'Preparation of appeals, Drafting of deeds and documents, and Representation before Appellate authorities and Statutory Bodies' hosted by ICAI. She currently serves as a Managing Committee Member of BCAS and is also a core member, Taxation committee and Convenor, Seminar, Membership Development and Public Relations committee, of BCAS. Kinjal is a co-editor of the BCAS Referencer - A 60 year-old, flagship publication encompassing Income Tax and other laws and contributor to annual budget publications.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Health Informatics (HI) focuses on the application of Information Technology (IT) to the field of medicine to improve individual and population healthcare delivery, education and research. This extensively updated fifth edition reflects the current knowledge in Health Informatics and provides learning objectives, key points, case studies and references.

There is an intrinsic conflict between creating secure systems and usable systems. But usability and security can be made synergistic by providing requirements and design tools with specific usable security principles earlier in the requirements and design phase. In certain situations, it is possible to increase usability and security by revisiting design decisions made in the past; in others, to align security and usability by changing the regulatory environment in which the computers operate. This book addresses creation of a usable security protocol for user authentication as a natural outcome of the requirements and design phase of the authentication method development life cycle.