Author Archives: Chris Dale

“Although there is inevitably much commonality between products, there are also differences. There are major differences of principle, minute differences of user interface, and a host of points of middling importance – middling, that is, until you need what suddenly … Continue reading →

“When the experts start chattering at each other in dog Greek, you know they want to exclude you. Metadata means “information about data” and generally has three sub-classes – descriptive metadata (generally appearing on its face, such as its date), … Continue reading →

“You might also, I suppose, think back to the good old days when a “document” was one or more pieces of paper filed with others in a ring binder, when the “data” about them was a typed list of documents … Continue reading →

“This might give the undiscerning reader the impression that such devices and documents are immune from the “reasonable and proportionate search” which the Disclosure Statement relates to. It does not. Indeed, the very recital (the detail of which may surprise … Continue reading →

“Furthermore, since a “document” is “anything in which information of any description is recorded” then whole PCs, servers, laptops and Blackberries are potentially disclosable. And that is the case regardless of your election to give your general Disclosure electronically. The … Continue reading →

“He had been tempted to ignore his new-found knowledge because, valuable though it was in many ways, he still had no idea what to do with the box on his desk. At that moment, a letter had come in from … Continue reading →

“Your guess is that between 2,500 and 5,000 documents are involved, but whilst you can more or less measure paper files by eye, it is hard to assess what is on the CDs. The enthusiasm with which the expert speakers … Continue reading →

The seminars on electronic Disclosure cover every aspect of it – except the everyday knock-about cases which every firm has. The suppliers of litigation software and litigation services promote their expertise in every kind of litigation – as long, apparently, … Continue reading →

My article The Mysteries of Disclosure, published on 3 January 2007 by Computers & Law here suggested that litigation support suppliers could do more to offer packaged and costed solutions which might persuade the converted but uncommited to make a … Continue reading →