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Terms of Reference for Australian Discovery review
I have already reported that the Australian Attorney General has commissioned a review of discovery laws. We now have sight of the formal Terms of Reference which embed the purpose of the review firmly in the title – “to improve … Continue reading
Comment on Singapore Deutsche AG judgment
Vince Neicho of Allen & Overy saw my post about the Singapore judgment of Senior Assistant Registrar Yeong Zee Kin in Deutsche Bank AG v Chang Tse Wen and others (see Singapore e-Discovery judgment shows international commonality and active management) … Continue reading
Liverpool EDisclosure event on 3 June
The Liverpool Law Society is host to a three-hour course on electronic disclosure on Thursday, 3 June starting at 13.30 pm. The speakers include Professor Dominic Regan and me, together with litigation software supplier Epiq Systems and litigation services supplier … Continue reading
International eDiscovery Panel at CEIC
There is one major difference between the general run of discovery problems and those relating to international and cross-border discovery. The former are soluble – competence and co-operation coupled with judicial management would fix most ediscovery problems tomorrow; the trans-jurisdictional … Continue reading
CEIC 2010 comes to an end
CEIC 2010 is winding down here in Las Vegas. Whatever measure you take – the quality of the sessions, the opportunity to catch up with people and meet new ones, the sheer numbers of people attending (1,300 or so), the … Continue reading
IQPC the best London e-disclosure conference again
The three-day IQPC Information Retention and eDisclosure Management Summit is over for another year. It is the biggest and best conference in the London calendar and one which genuinely aspires to do better each year. Everyone I spoke to seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Case Management, Court Rules, CPR, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDisclosure Conferences, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Epiq Systems, Ernst & Young, FRCP, Guidance Software, IQPC, Judges, Litigation Support, Lord Justice Jackson, Masters Conference, Nuix, Part 31 CPR, Recommind, Trilantic, Women in eDiscovery
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A week of change in e-Disclosure as well as in politics
It is not often that you look back over a week or so and know that you will always remember it. Eight days ago, we had the same government as we had had for 13 years; now, not only the … Continue reading
Imminent reform in prospect for Australian discovery process
Reform of the discovery process in Australia is said to be “imminent”, according to an article in the New Lawyer. The article says that the Attorney General has asked the Australian Law Reform Commission to explore options to promote the … Continue reading
Recommind webinar: Technology is Changing the Economics of e-Disclosure, Are You Prepared?
My title is the name of a webinar which I am doing with Jason Robman of Recommind on 25 May. Its description reads as follows: The enormous costs and time associated with the e-Disclosure process are staggering, with the document … Continue reading
E-Disclosure law, practice and technology in one educational package
The first of the E-disclosure seminars organised jointly by Professor Dominic Regan and me took place yesterday at Ely Place Chambers. Dominic and I were joined by Senior Master Whitaker and by speakers from three technology providers, 7Safe, Legal Inc … Continue reading
Singapore e-Discovery judgment shows international commonality and active management
A judgment by Senior Assistant Registrar Yeong Zee Kin in the Singapore High Court last week shows the commonality in court-led management of e-Discovery between common law jurisdictions. The case is Deutsche Bank AG v Chang Tse Wen and others … Continue reading
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The 2010 Duke Conference on US Civil Litigation
No one with any interest in the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure could be unaware of the debates which have been going on about the costs of civil litigation and, in particular, of discovery. A conference is being held … Continue reading
A flying visit to Edinburgh
The spate of blog posts last week-end was a clearing of the decks in the knowledge that I would not have much writing time for a bit. The Edinburgh trip which is the subject of this post is being followed … Continue reading
Vector Investments: successful claimant made to pay for unhelpful disclosure
Is quite rare to come across UK cases where the quality and costs of disclosure become the subject of a reported judgment. In rare cases such as Digicel, Earles or Goodale, disclosure is either the primary subject-matter of the judgment … Continue reading
New e-Disclosure articles on the SCL website
The website of the Society for Computers & Law has two new articles about electronic disclosure. One is by barrister Clive Freedman of 3 Verulam Buildings and is called Disclosure: the Proposed Rule Changes. It summarises succinctly the elements in … Continue reading
Standards and outcomes: Hitler, the NHS, the police, social workers – and e-Disclosure
My heading, I appreciate, looks like the components of some random word game. There is in fact a connection, and it is to do with the supremacy of result over procedure and of destination over the journey. Hitler, the NHS … Continue reading
New web site for e.law Asia-Pacific
I can see why it has taken e.law some time to assemble their new website following the acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions in November 2009. The integrated business now covers a very broad range of activities across a wide geographical … Continue reading
Spring Offensive in the eDisclosure War
It feels suddenly as if a new phase is opening up in the war to tackle the wasted costs of e-disclosure. If the Rule Committee’s recent failure to grasp the nettle seemed a rebuff, there is a new Spring Offensive … Continue reading
Goodale v MoJ – a template judgment for active management of eDisclosure
The publication of Senior Master Whitaker’s judgment in Goodale v Ministry of Justice is important for reasons beyond the fact that the parties used the ESI Questionnaire which is annexed to the proposed e-Disclosure Practice Direction and which is also … Continue reading
Nuix joins the e-Disclosure Information Project
I am delighted to welcome eDiscovery and electronic investigation software company Nuix as the latest sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. The connection began at the Ark Group eDiscovery conference in Sydney last year when I found myself sitting next … Continue reading
E-Discovery and Judicial Involvement in Australia
Project Counsel is the sister site to The Posse List, both run by the ubiquitous Gregory Bufithis. Project Counsel’s web site carried an article on 25th February with the title In Australia, e-Discovery and enhanced judicial involvement come of age … Continue reading
You cannot really complain at a full InBox and lots of tweets
A day in London leaves me with a pile of e-mails and a heap of tweets – all signs of a lively market, and to be welcomed despite the time it will take to catch up. Add a crusading podcast, … Continue reading
Moving forward on all fronts
I am off today to record a podcast for CPDCast about the e-Disclosure components of Lord Justice Jackson’s report. You may recall that I was booked to do this on the day before the Civil Procedure Rule Committee met to … Continue reading
No need to wait for the eDisclosure Practice Direction and Questionnaire – just get on with it
The decision (or, rather, the non-decision) of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee to send the e-Disclosure Practice Direction and EDisclosure Questionnaire off into the sidings of a sub-committee has been the equivalent of coming up behind a funeral cortège whilst … Continue reading
Jackson untroubled by delay to e-Disclosure Practice Direction
I do not generally deal in instant news in these pages – considered reflection is more my style and, besides, there is normally a queue of things to write about. At the top of that queue at the moment is … Continue reading
There is more to FTI Technology than Attenex and Ringtail
My self-imposed job description involves flitting between all the players in the electronic disclosure / electronic discovery world, picking up information and ideas from one place and dropping them in another. I talk to judges, lawyers and technology suppliers, read … Continue reading
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Dominic Regan on the Jackson Report: the word of the moment is momentum
There is a great deal of interest being shown in electronic disclosure amongst UK lawyers at the moment. Some of the activity is reported in my post Containing the interest in the eDisclosure Practice Direction and ESI Questionnaire. That ended … Continue reading
Containing the interest in the eDisclosure Practice Direction and ESI Questionnaire
There has been much interest in the draft eDisclosure Practice Direction and the Questionnaire which forms part of it. Lawyers and education providers keep asking for a sight of it. Lord Justice Jackson commended it. Rule-makers in other jurisdictions have … Continue reading
Stratify eDiscovery Super Session panels at LegalTech
I have already mentioned one of the four panels which Stratify is running on Tuesday, 2 February in the Sutton Parlor Center Room at the Hilton in New York. The sessions are as follows: 8.30 Can we have our cake … Continue reading
Posse List interview with e.law Asia Pacific: the spike in e-discovery work in Asia
I was speaking in Singapore when news broke of e.law’s acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions. It added to my general impression (which I was bold enough to turn into a prediction) that the Asia-Pacific region was the place to watch … Continue reading
Catching up with the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure
I missed the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure which came into effect on 1 January. By “missed”, I mean that I knew about them but decided that it was a topic important enough to be put on one … Continue reading
First thoughts on the eDisclosure implications of the Jackson Report
The sections relating to disclosure and e-disclosure in the Jackson Report are a call to action for lawyers and judges without waiting for any actual amendment to the Rules. The key element which Jackson identifies is education, and we can … Continue reading
New Singapore e-discovery resource
Those who come here often will know that I was in Singapore in October last year shortly after the introduction of their Practice Direction No 3 on Discovery and Inspection of Electronically Stored Information . I had been invited to … Continue reading
Orange Rag: Scottish Civil Costs Review – a missed opportunity
John Craske, Head of Business IT at Dundas & Wilson LLP has contributed a guest article to the Orange Rag which hints at disappointment in the Scottish Civil Courts Review. I wrote briefly about the Report of the Scottish Civil … Continue reading
How IT can support judicial reform? asks Dutch judge Dory Reiling
How many judges do you know who might write a PhD thesis with the title Technology for Justice: How Information Technology Can Support Judicial Reform, discuss it on her blog, and promise to inform you of its publication by Twitter. … Continue reading
Virtual LegalTech round-up
The general reaction to ALM’s Virtual LegalTech by its participants and delegates seems generally to be positive. If, as Charles Christian said on Twitter afterwards, it had a 1990s feel to it, well, that can doubtless be improved upon in … Continue reading
Welcome to Stratify as new Project sponsor
I am very pleased to welcome electronic discovery software company Stratify as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. Their addition to the list of sponsors coincides with the opening of their London office and data centre, as well as … Continue reading
The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange
The first session at the Thomson Reuters e-Disclosure Conference in London last week was called The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange. George Socha’s panel included a solicitor, a software provider and a judge – Matthew Davis of Lovells, … Continue reading
Business mixed with pleasure at the Thomson Reuters London e-Disclosure conference
The Thomson Reuters Fifth eDisclosure Forum was sponsored by Autonomy, Stratify and Legastat and, as before, the co-chairs were Browning Marean, George Socha and me. I enjoyed it and, unless they were just being polite, the audience seemed to think … Continue reading
Master Whitaker addresses London Solicitors Litigation Association on e-Disclosure
I went to listen to Senior Master Whitaker speak last night to the London Solicitors Litigation Association about electronic disclosure. I was not expecting to hear much that was new to me – I have heard him speak five times … Continue reading
FTI webinar: financial, transactional and operational databases in e-disclosure
FTI Consulting are presenting a webinar on structured data on Thursday 19 November at 1300 GMT. The subject is perceived by some as too difficult to talk about, but it cannot be ignored. Elephants have provided a recurring theme throughout … Continue reading
LexisNexis eDiscovery conference in Singapore
As you might infer from its name, the e-Disclosure Information Project set out with purely national ambitions. England and Wales is the only jurisdiction in the world to give the name e-Disclosure to the process of identifying, preserving, collecting and … Continue reading
Earles v Barclays Bank reported in the Times
Earles v Barclays Bank was reported in The Times today with the heading Disclosing electronic data. I have already written about this (see Costs penalty for non-compliance with e-disclosure obligations). It is significant at several levels: unlike Digicel it is … Continue reading
Spitting on the deck of the CPR
Unintended consequences are not necessarily unforeseeable. It was wholly predictable that the pre-issue obligations of the 1999 Civil Procedure Rules would shift the battleground to the front end of the litigation, and with obvious consequences in costs. As with the … Continue reading
Next stop Singapore for LexisNexis E-Discovery Conference
Practice Direction No 3 of 2009 in the Supreme Court of Singapore is entitled Discovery and Inspection of Electronically Stored Information and took effect on 1 October 2009. I am off to Singapore today to take part in a conference … Continue reading
Costs penalty for non-compliance with e-disclosure obligations
A judgment given yesterday by His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC sitting as an Additional High Court Judge in the Birmingham Mercantile Court, will focus minds on the need to comply with the requirements of Part 31 CPR and the … Continue reading
Scottish Civil Courts Review
One of my aims this evening was to knock out a few words on those parts of the newly-published Report of the Scottish Civil Courts Review as relate to case management and disclosure of documents, before moving on to one … Continue reading
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Federal Court of Australia re-issues PN 17
Your heart sinks when you see a headline like that. PN 17 re-issued already? It only came into force in February. What can have turned up which warranted re-issuing it? It transpires that this is the result of a re-numbering … Continue reading
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Reaching informed agreement that e-disclosure is not needed
Having just published an article about whether electronic disclosure is needed in all cases, I turned to Ralph Losey’s blog to discover that he had just published an article about whether electronic discovery is needed in all cases. We do … Continue reading
How would Bray & Gillespie play in the UK?
Bray & Gillespie is a US eDiscovery case which has attracted attention partly because its outcome was so predictable and partly for the strong views expressed by the judge as to the conduct of those involved. What would have been … Continue reading
Fifth Annual eDisclosure Forum in London for only £99
London’s Fifth Annual eDisclosure Forum takes place on 13 November. Run by Thomson Reuters with Sweet & Maxwell, it is generally agreed to be one of the best in the London calendar. The delegate fee is only £99 + VAT, … Continue reading
I disclose the discovery that Britain is on its own
The UK cast itself off from the US and the rest of the common law world when we renamed “discovery” to “disclosure”. Now the whole Special Relationship has apparently died. US-UK cooperation on discovery/disclosure will survive that. Inevitably, this column … Continue reading
Posted in Case Management, Court Rules, CPR, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, FRCP
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Judicial College gives hope of e-disclosure training
Today’s Times reports on the launch of a new Judicial College which will give judges the opportunity to top up their skills and keep up to date with developments in the law, practice and procedure. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord … Continue reading
Why not just read a few eDiscovery cases?
An hour or so after I posted my blog entry eDiscovery certification bars new entrants arguing against the apparatus of exams and certificates for in-house staff, a new post appears headed The Critical Need for eDiscovery Certification followed closely by … Continue reading
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Judge Facciola on US and UK judicial discovery education
US Magistrate Judge John Facciola has recorded a podcast interview with Sarah Haynes of IQPC. This follows a very successful judicial panel which Guidance Software organised at IQPC’s e-disclosure conference in London in May (see The discovery of disclosure commonality … Continue reading
Jackson Litigation Costs Review consultation ends
A few seconds before midnight on Friday, an e-mail arrived from Abigail Pilkington, the Clerk to the Review of Civil Litigation Costs. It was a bit eerie, really. The East Wing of the Royal Courts of Justice is a cavernous, … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Attenex, Case Management, Civil justice, Court Rules, Courts, CPR, Discovery, DocuMatrix, E-Discovery Suppliers, Early Case Assessment, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Equivio, FTI Technology, Judges, Litigation, Litigation costs, Litigation Support, Lord Justice Jackson, RingTail
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Well-justified anonymity of Jackson commentator
I am not sure what to make of an article which I have found on a blog criticising aspects of Lord Justice Jackson’s Preliminary Report on litigation costs. I have a general rule that if I do not have something … Continue reading
Woolf v Genn: the decline of civil justice
My post’s heading, Woolf v Genn: the decline of civil justice, is taken from an article in the Times of 23 June 2009 which I missed. I do not altogether blame myself for not seeing it — the people who … Continue reading
Lord Neuberger to be Master of the Rolls
It is good news that Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury is to be the new Master of the Rolls from 1 October (see the Times story here). The Master of the Rolls is the Head of Civil Justice and therefore the … Continue reading
Getting away from it all
I have never been much good at this holiday lark. I can manage the logistics of travel, and I do not suffer from any illusion that the world’s continuing rotation depends on my being at my desk. I can flit … Continue reading
Cooperative hands across the sea
My post about the increasing exchange of ideas between the US and UK on matters of electronic discovery (Preserving the old ways, protecting the new ways) followed a spate of references in US e-discovery commentaries to what is happening in … Continue reading
Preserving the old ways, protecting the new ways
This column, as you may have noticed, is deeply attached to the old principles of discovery of documents as a means of bringing evidence before the court. It is also a determined advocate of new ways of managing it. The … Continue reading
US-UK cross-fertilisation for discovery
Vince Neicho, litigation support expert at Allen & Overy in London, has an interesting article in Legal Week about the increasing amount of discussion and shared ideas between those interested in e-discovery / eDisclosure in the US and the UK. … Continue reading
Australia at the centre of the discovery world
The default map of the world shows Britain in the middle and near the top, with Alaska at top left and New Zealand at bottom right. Perhaps that is because Europe invented the Greenwich Meridian; maybe it is a legacy … Continue reading
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Ark Group e-Disclosure Conference 2009
You can generate a lot of notes in six conference days in three countries in nine days and have little time to transcribe them. I am quite good at actually recording what people say, less so at the small but … Continue reading
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Jackson conference challenge to litigation support providers
Lord Justice Jackson laid down a challenge to litigation support providers at the Ark Group e-Disclosure 2009 conference in London last week. They must, he said, find a way to bring down the cost of e-disclosure; if they cannot, then … Continue reading
Judge Grimm webinar on the Maryland Protocol
When US Chief Magistrate Judge Paul W Grimm was in London for the IQPC Information Retention and e-Disclosure Management Conference recently, he mentioned the Maryland Protocol which he and others have devised for the better handling of electronically stored information … Continue reading
Birmingham Post reports on costs management trial
The litigation costs management trial on which I reported a few days ago (Jackson launches costs management trial in Birmingham) has been covered by the Birmingham Post. Their article of 3 June is headed City will be test case for … Continue reading
Labour’s fall may be matched by litigation’s recovery
I have just sent off my slides for my keynote speech at the Ark Group’s e-disclosure conference on Monday 9 June. Its title is The Empty Bear Garden, and it is about the decline of litigation since the CPR of … Continue reading
Parallel and cross-border developments in eDiscovery
I have just had to turn down the opportunity to speak at a conference organised by LexisNexis in Hong Kong on 20 and 21 July. The invitation was to deliver the keynote speech at the start of the first day … Continue reading
Jackson launches costs management trial in Birmingham
Lord Justice Jackson went to Birmingham on Tuesday to encourage its litigation solicitors to take part in a costs management trial in the specialist courts. The details are interesting, but less so than the policy considerations which underlay Sir Rupert’s … Continue reading
Hard to keep up with Lord Justice Jackson
I went to Birmingham on Tuesday evening to hear Lord Justice Jackson launch a new costs management initiative in the Specialist Courts there, and got a taste of the energy which has brought us his Preliminary Report on Civil Litigation … Continue reading
Mock e-Disclosure hearing photographs
For those who have already seen the post about our mock e-disclosure hearing at IQPC last week, I have now added some photographs to it. They and others can also be found here. They were all taken by Sonia Perez … Continue reading
Making a play to sugar the e-disclosure pill
In a previous post (The discovery of disclosure commonality with a trans-Atlantic judicial panel) I told how IQPC had, at my suggestion, invited US Magistrate Judge John Facciola and Chief US Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm to come to their Information … Continue reading
The discovery of disclosure commonality with a trans-Atlantic judicial panel
If I were to define a perfect working day it would go something like this: wake up in a comfortable hotel and take a five minute stroll to Piccadilly; sit on a platform with the two leading US and the … Continue reading
Compliance with the demands of an e-disclosure diary
I don’t think I envisaged a peaceful life when I decided to commit all my time to promoting electronic disclosure, but I am not sure either that I foresaw this much activity compressed into a short space. It is just … Continue reading
Clyde & Co selects Epiq Systems and Trilantic as preferred e-disclosure providers
Although the business of the e-Disclosure Information Project involves telling law firms and corporations about electronic disclosure technology suppliers, I avoid discussions about pending competitive tenders in the e-disclosure market. Given the range of people with whom I am in … Continue reading
Something for everyone in the Jackson litigation costs report
Lord Justice Jackson’s interim report on civil litigation costs weighed in at 650 pages, not the 1,000 pages which rumour anticipated. It is as well that I am commentator not a newshound journalist, because I missed the big day and … Continue reading
The untapped potential of YouTube as a promotional medium
You can launch political policies, bands and brands on YouTube, but perhaps not 1,000 page interim reports on litigation costs. Lord Justice Jackson will do his launch tomorrow with an old-fashioned press conference. Other things, however, bring the marketing and … Continue reading
E-Disclosure in the £50,000 case
The article to which I am about to refer you is in fact called E-Discovery in the $50,000 Case by Conrad Jacoby and not as my heading shows it. We in the UK renamed the ancient process known as discovery … Continue reading
Fast Track Directions in Australian Federal Court
The Australian Federal Court has promulgated new Fast Track Directions which aim to get a case finished within 5 to 8 months, and to reduce costs by limiting discovery and avoiding lengthy interlocutory disputes. I have noted before that the … Continue reading
LexisNexis debate marks ten years of the CPR
LexisNexis, publishers of the Civil Court Practice 2009 “The Green Book” marked the tenth anniversary of the Civil Procedure Rules with a debate chaired by Lord Neuberger which considered the impact of the CPR and assessed its strengths and weaknesses. … Continue reading
Irish discovery rules embrace electronic documents
By happy chance, the discovery rules in Ireland have the same number as those in the Civil Procedure Rules of England & Wales. Order 31 of the Rules of the Superior Courts give the court the power to order discovery … Continue reading
Informed comment in the Times adds to the Woolf rules debate
No sooner had I published my post Have the Woolf reforms worked? yesterday when Jonathan Maas flicked me a link to an article in Times Online on the same subject. It is called Sad and unsatisfactory – but not destroyed … Continue reading
Not going to Canada for the second time this month
As you may recall, I was not able to go to a meeting in Toronto at the beginning of April, when Senior Master Whitaker and I had hoped to see Justice Campbell and others to talk about common ground between … Continue reading
Have the Woolf reforms worked?
An article in the Times of 9 April had the title Have the Woolf reforms worked? Written by Lawrence West QC, it makes an uncompromising start with the assertion in the first paragraph that “the reforms — known as the … Continue reading
Taking the Administrative Courts to the regions
The Times of 9 April carried an interview with Sir Anthony May, President of the Queen’s Bench Division. Its title London-centric? We are taking power to the people conveys the gist of the article. The Administrative Court is to soon … Continue reading
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Welcome to FTI Technology as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
It is very good to welcome FTI Technology as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. FTI Technology is a segment of FTI Consulting, Inc., a global business advisory firm, and brings immense resources to bear on the acquisitions and … Continue reading
KordaMentha picks EnCase from Guidance Software for Australian eDiscovery
Like sport and so much else, the idea of proving a legal case by discovery of documents is an old English concept which was adopted wherever the English had a hand in establishing a system of law. America kept it … Continue reading
Posted in Australian courts, Case Management, Court Rules, Courts, CPR, Discovery, E-Discovery Suppliers, Early Case Assessment, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Forensic data collections, FRCP, Guidance Software, Litigation, Litigation Support, Regulatory investigation
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Catching up with KPMG
Part of the function of the e-Disclosure Information Project is to keep up with what the providers of software and services are doing. Given my emphasis on the human aspects of this business (which recurs in this blog and elsewhere … Continue reading
Explaining the Procrustean Bed
My post Zander sees his Woolf CPR predictions fulfilled refers you to an article by Michael Zander QC. As an aside, a generation deprived of a classical education may be puzzled by Zander’s reference to a “Procrustean bed”, as I … Continue reading
Zander sees his Woolf CPR predictions justified
Michael Zander QC, now Emeritus Professor at the LSE, was a forthright and eloquent critic of the Woolf reforms which led to the Civil Procedure Rules in 1999. Few took much notice of his predictions, least of all Lord Woolf. … Continue reading
Free e-disclosure podcast from CPDCast
I recorded a podcast last week with James Sheedy of CPDCast. You can listen to it for free and solicitors, barristers and ILEX member can get CPD points for doing so. There is a note at the bottom of this … Continue reading
The growing importance of metadata preservation in eDiscovery
If UK lawyers do not share the US enthusiasm about the preservation, collection and use of metadata, that is in part because they are not clear what it is and how it might be used. A forthcoming webinar will be … Continue reading
Ark Group Conference 8-9 June 2009
The brochure came out today for Ark Group’s e-Disclosure conference taking place in the Ibis Hotel, Earls Court, London on 8-9 June. The main attraction is Lord Justice Jackson who will be presenting a review of the litigation costs working … Continue reading
Posted in Access to Justice, Case Management, Commercial Court, Court Rules, Courts, CPR, Document Retention, eDisclosure, eDisclosure Conferences, Electronic disclosure, Litigation, Litigation costs, Litigation Support, Lord Justice Jackson, Mediation and ADR, Mercantile Courts, Part 31 CPR
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Law Society Seminar – Disclosure – the risks after Hedrich
I spoke yesterday at a seminar organised by the Law Society and sponsored by Legal Inc and Millnet. The theme was as foreshadowed in my article Law Society Disclosure Seminar in London and was implicit in the name I gave … Continue reading
Legal Inc panel at LegalTech lives up to its billing
Litigation support providers from the relatively small UK market made a good showing at LegalTech in New York this year. Amongst them was Legal Inc who hosted a panel of luminaries moderated by Charles Christian of Legal Technology Insider. LTi … Continue reading
E-Disclosure Taster Menu in Bristol
I went down to Bristol last week with a group of electronic disclosure suppliers at the invitation of the Western Chancery & Commercial Bar Association. The aim, as in Birmingham last year, was not just to talk about electronic disclosure, … Continue reading
Posted in CaseMap, Court Rules, Courts, CPR, E-Discovery Suppliers, Early Case Assessment, eDisclosure, EDRM, Electronic disclosure, Equivio, Forensic data collections, FoxData, Judges, LexisNexis, Litigation, Litigation costs, Litigation Readiness, Litigation Support, Mercantile Courts, Part 31 CPR, Trilantic
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Mediation – not about just settlement but just about settlement
Professor Dame Hazel Genn QC has launched a stinging attack on the downgrading of civil justice and the promotion of mediation at the expense of the civil litigation system. ADR is a worthy parallel remedy but government promoted it more … Continue reading
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