  The continued amalgamation of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) into everyday
activities stimulates the idea that these devices will increasingly contribute
evidential importance in digital forensics cases. This study investigates the
extent to which GPS devices are being used in criminal and civil court cases in
the United Kingdom through the inspection of Lexis Nexis, Westlaw, and the
British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) legal databases. The
research identified 83 cases which involved GPS evidence from within the United
Kingdom and Europe for the time period from 01 June 1993 to 01 June 2013. The
initial empirical analysis indicates that GPS evidence in court cases is rising
over time and the majority of those court cases are criminal cases.
