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Category Archives: Courts
Summation back in the UK
Summation is one of the older litigation support software companies – it was founded in 1988. It has made a few attempts to break into the UK market but these fizzled out mainly (to my eye) for lack of a … Continue reading
Defensibility of the UK e-Disclosure process
Do the UK courts ever question the manner in which electronic evidence was collected? It is a source of much contention in the US but we have little case law directly on the point here. It is clearly vital to … Continue reading
Another e-Disclosure event in Birmingham
A second talk to Law Society members in Birmingham revealed more enthusiasm for electronic disclosure than one might expect given the amount actually done. How do we translate that enthusiasm into action? The only action required is to ask a … Continue reading
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Anacomp captures new sources of information
Anacomp announces new alliances which bring hosted capture to its already broad range of services. The trend towards a one-stop shop will appeal to many. Anacomp, best known until last year for its docHarbor document repository, has taken a further … Continue reading
E-Disclosure conferences in London 2008
There are several e-Disclosure conferences in London this year, including a couple which have not been seen in this space for a bit. Conference organisers have a keen eye for what is topical and have obviously decided that 2008 is … Continue reading
The Qualcomm CREDO Program
The judge who heard the sanctions part of the Qualcomm case set out a program for devising an action plan to prevent future disclosure violations. UK companies may like to measure their own preparedness against it. On 30 January I … Continue reading
Conference focuses on ADR and Costs
CLAN, the Commercial Litigation Association, is running a conference on 13 March with an emphasis on Alternative Dispute Resolution and costs. Called Practical Challenges for Modern Commercial Litigators, it addresses issues including Litigation funding ADR: what the future holds Costs: … Continue reading
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Discovering what to do about e-disclosure
The paucity of blog postings recently does not imply that there is nothing to write about On the contrary, there is too much going on to stop and write it all up. A quick summary of what has come up … Continue reading
UK judge flies e-Disclosure flag in New York
His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC of the Birmingham Mercantile Court went to New York last week to take part in a judicial panel on the subject of eDisclosure. The resulting debate should make audiences sit up on both sides … Continue reading
An effective remedy for prolixity
I reported earlier today (Commercial Court judges set out their case management intentions) on the Commercial Court judges’ intention to limit the length of pleadings, witness statements etc as part of their firm commitment to cut the crap (they did … Continue reading
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Commercial Court judges set out their case management intentions
A well-attended meeting of the Commercial Litigators’ Association on Monday was left in no doubt that the Commercial Court judges intend to follow closely the recommendations of the Commercial Court Long Trial Working Party Allen & Overy were the hosts … Continue reading
Networking thoughts after LegalTech
The LegalTech cud is still being chewed. The graph below show page views on this blog down to today, with an encouraging upward trend. The actual visits are not huge in absolute terms – 163 page views on one day … Continue reading
The Portability of H5’s Process
Contrary to my assumptions, H5’s very different approach to document review can be made available in the UK on data hosted here. Those with bigger cases should consider adding H5 to their list of possible solutions I had breakfast with … Continue reading
Guidance on the Human Factor in eDiscovery
My first port of call in New York last week was Patrick Burke, Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software. I did a webinar with Patrick over Christmas (Americans don’t really do Christmas I discover – the last e-mail in on … Continue reading
Basketball pointers for litigation management
eDiscovery Tools is an Australian company which makes software for processing e-mail and other electronic documents for litigation and similar purposes. Its main product is eDiscovery Processor, used by law firms, corporate clients, government departments and litigation support bureaux to … Continue reading
Trilantic sessions round off LegalTech
As in previous years, Trilantic organised three sessions for the last day of LegalTech. They are generally less formal than the other sessions and, as I have said elsewhere, take important subjects with a light tone. I thought I would … Continue reading
Long Trials trial gets longer trial
Mr Justice Andrew Smith, Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, has issued a statement about the Report of the Commercial Court Long Trials Recommendations. The Recommendations will be put into practice from 1 February. The trial period, however, will … Continue reading
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The impact of Qualcomm for UK lawyers
The sanctions judgment in Qualcomm v Broadcomm emphasises for UK lawyers the apparent conflict between their duty to ensure that their clients give full disclosure and their parallel obligation to keep disclosure proportionate. The two duties are not in fact … Continue reading
Spotting the turning-point at the starting-point
The main character in the film The Butterfly Effect explores every possible event in his search for the right answer, only identifying the correct turning point at the end of the last reel, after much unnecessary tribulation. The aim of … Continue reading
E-Disclosure – What does the court expect?
His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC told a London conference audience what the UK courts expect from those who appear before them when electronic disclosure is a big element in a case. I have written separately about the conference organised … Continue reading
Growing interest in e-disclosure sources
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words, so to save a lot of typing, I give you the graph which my Blog host, WordPress, produces to show the hits since I began the blog a year ago. The … Continue reading
Intimidation by Terabyte – scope of e-disclosure
The judgment in Hands v Morrison Construction Services Ltd [2006] may have related to the special circumstance of an application for pre-action disclosure in the TCC, but it has some messages applicable to e-disclosure generally We are very short on … Continue reading
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Debating the Aikens Report
I wrote on Friday (Give more credit to the Aikens Recommendations) with a more positive view of the Long Trial Report and Recommendations than had been given by John Reynolds of White & Case (Aikens misses the big picture) in … Continue reading
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Irish Court rules on data extraction
Anyone involved in electronic discovery may be interested in a decision of the Irish Supreme Court in Dome Telecom v Eircom. The point at issue was whether a party can be required to create a document as part of the … Continue reading
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Give more credit to the Aikens Recommendations
John Reynolds, a partner in White & Case, shows less than enthusiasm for the Commercial Court Long Trials Report and Recommendations in an article published yesterday on Legal Week’s web site. The Recommendations deserve more credit. The article, headed Aikens … Continue reading
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Marcus Evans conference – E-Discovery Strategies
A good e-Disclosure conference will make you want to know more or, at least, will ring an alarm bell in due course. There are pitfalls to know about and practice development opportunities being missed. I am just back from a … Continue reading
Predicting litigation responsibility for 2008
The big changes in litigation for 2008 both concern responsibility – the authority and knowledge of the person who gives the Disclosure Statement and the direct responsibility at boardroom level for the time and cost of heavy litigation. Both represent … Continue reading
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An articled clerk in Gray’s Inn in the 1970s
An old name used by a web searcher stirs memories of typewritten lists of documents of long ago. I keep a close eye on the web statistics from my web site and blog. They tell me, amongst other things, what … Continue reading
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Australia updates Federal Court ediscovery rules
New court rules for handling electronic documents are expected in Australia before the end of 2007. They will bite on as few as 500 documents, there will be a court-appointed expert to manage cases, and there is a massive investment … Continue reading
Commercial Court Long Trial Recommendations
The Report and Recommendations of the Commercial Court Long Trials Working Party was published on 6 December 2007. Its 83 pages deserve a closer look than time allows now, but we will have a quick summary of the passages relating … Continue reading
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First e-disclosure training for judges
I led an e-disclosure training session in Birmingham last week for a room-full of District Judges and Specialist Judges from Chancery and Mercantile Courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds. We covered the Practice Direction to Part 31 CPR, the … Continue reading
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T3 – Trial Tactics and Technology in London
A mock eDiscovery hearing yesterday in front of real judges would have put UK litigation lawyers on notice of rough rides ahead if they are less than fully prepared to justify what has been done or not done to control … Continue reading
US court rejects production of paper documents
The US Electronic Discovery Blog carries a story under the heading Court rejects paper production as inadequate and orders production in electronic format. The court had suggested that “whatever is electronically available.. be made available in electronic format”. The Defendants … Continue reading
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Richard Susskind and the End of Lawyers
Richard Susskind’s long-term prediction that the work of lawyers will break up into “identifiable and discrete pieces” applies here and now to electronic Disclosure. The discrete stages of first identifying and culling, and only then analysing, document populations do not … Continue reading
E-Discovery conference in London January 2008
Marcus Evans, the international conference organiser, asked me some time ago to be a speaker at their E-Discovery and Document Management Strategies Conference in London on 14 and 15 January 2008. The request coincided with the opportunity to organise e-Disclosure … Continue reading
Posted in Court Rules, Courts, CPR, Discovery, Document Retention, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, FRCP, Litigation Support
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Useful pointer to US e-Discovery sources
The Information Governance Engagement Area has a link to a useful article which pulls together the key US sources on e-Discovery matters. The article, by Robert Ambrogi in Law Technology News, is called EDD Bytes to feed your firm’s knowledge … Continue reading
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Training for judges in e-Disclosure
“I have been asked to develop and deliver a training course for judges on the subject of e-disclosure. There are two broad headings – the nuts and bolts of the technology and the proactive use of the CPR to encourage … Continue reading
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Electronic evidence and e-discovery forum 2007
The skills and tools developed for urgent regulatory compliance and forensic analysis have benefits for cost-effective electronic Disclosure in litigation. I am just back from the Electronic Evidence and e-Discovery forum run by AKJ Associates, a two-day conference at which … Continue reading
Predicting the end of e-Discovery?
At first sight, a ruling made in Delaware last week appears to predict the end of e-Discovery. A closer reading reveals a terminological confusion and the common-sense conclusion that clients will find a different way of resolving their disputes if … Continue reading
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US courts’ hard line on Discovery failures
The US courts are coming down heavily on inadequate Discovery of e-mail and other electronic sources of information, and accepting few excuses for non-compliance with the Rules. Events in a far away country of which we know little (as Chamberlain … Continue reading
Agree on Disclosure – or the judge will decide for you
If the parties fail to agree on the handling of electronic sources of information as required by the Practice Direction to Part 31 CPR, the judge might impose his own ideas on them. The result may please neither side. This … Continue reading
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E-Disclosure, Needles and Haystacks 3 – Keywords
This is the third article which looks at issues raised by Alex Charlton and Matthew Lavy in an article in the April / May 2007 edition of the SCL’s Computers & Law Magazine. The opening article is here. This section … Continue reading
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Getting the message across at the MoJ
I go to the Ministry of Justice web site from time to time, partly because I run a law firm’s web site and blog and need to keep abreast of things beyond my own subjects, and partly in the hope … Continue reading
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In Orlando, now that ILTA’s there
I pack my bag, and in it I put a Marriott hotel in Orlando, ILTA, the Practice Direction to Part 31 CPR, a document retention policy, a litigation support training course, an e-Disclosure conference, some needles and haystacks, All Souls … Continue reading
What can the CPR learn from the FRCP?
Reza Alexander of DLA Piper UK LLP is perhaps the most knowledgeable UK expert on the implications of the recent e-Disclosure amendments to the US court rules. I will point you in a moment to an article by him, but … Continue reading
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OutIndex imports orators as well as Outlook
OutIndex, makers of low-cost software which imports and processes mail files and electronic documents, invited some top US e-Disclosure experts to speak at their Legal Technology Summit yesterday. English judges are showing increasing interest in using their CPR powers to … Continue reading
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The Ministry of Justice
Is it true that the judges boycotted the opening party for the new Ministry of Justice or did the MoJ just forget to tell them about it? And will anyone remember the civil courts in the excitement over prisons and … Continue reading
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