Patrick Collins, Senior Legal Officer of the Australian Law Reform Commission, made a presentation at an ediscovery conference in Melbourne last week. I don’t miss many common law ediscovery conferences, but I was not at this one, and I am obliged to Geoffrey Lambert of e.law for pointing me to a summary of Patrick Collins’ presentation.
I noted in a recent post about a Singapore case that those of us concerned with the development of eDisclosure / eDiscovery rules watch closely what is happening in other jurisdictions. Some of us who were involved in the new UK e-Disclosure Practice Direction 31B – Senior Master Whitaker, Vince Neicho of Allen & Overy and me – were pleased to be invited to give some input into the consultation phase of the Australian Discovery Report, and will be equally pleased, in due course, to see what recommendations emerge and find favour – it all helps inform our next round of discussions.
I see, incidentally, that our Ministry of Justice has a pretty new web site, and has redirected existing urls to an archived copy. I am sure that makes sense for them, but those of us with links into the site will have to change them all. Since I make a point of linking to the rules and the PD every time I refer to them, that is somewhat tiresome.
