Category Archives: Singapore

KPMG brings RelativityOne to Singapore

In my recent post about Relativity’s investment from Silver Lake, I mentioned that the investment would support Relativity’s planned expansion into new regions. It was not hard to guess that one of those would be the Asia Pacific region, and … Continue reading

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Interview: Keith Conley of Epiq on Epiq’s growing global reach and technology investment

Keith Conley is President and Chief Operating Officer at Epiq. I interviewed him at Legaltech in New York in February, asking him about Epiq’s recent and planned expansion a year after the merger with DTI which made Epiq the biggest … Continue reading

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Challenges and opportunities for FTI’s new Managing Director for Asia

FTI Technology has appointed Sandeep Jadav as its new managing director for Asia. He will be based in Hong Kong with responsibility for FTI teams in Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore, and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region. Any thought that I might … Continue reading

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Epiq: eDiscovery seminar in Singapore for financial services teams on 25 April

Epiq is organising an eDiscovery seminar for financial services teams to be held in Singapore on 25th of April 2017. The context is the ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny, the growing complexity of cross-border investigations, and the increasing need to keep track … Continue reading

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Inaugural meeting of the SCL in Singapore on 14 October

The inaugural meeting of the Society for Computers and Law in Singapore takes place on 14 October. Its title is Negotiation and litigation of technology contracts: some common challenges. The Chair was known to us as Mr Justice Ramsey of … Continue reading

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Sebastian Ko of Epiq in Hong Kong talks about conducting eDiscovery in the Asia Pacific region

Sebastian Ko is Director, Document Review Services, for Epiq, based in Hong Kong. I had the opportunity to interview him when I was in Hong Kong earlier this year and I asked him about how Epiq handles the issues which … Continue reading

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The future of money and data at the Singapore Technology Law Conference 2015

My main reason for attending the Global Technology Law Conference 2015 in Singapore at the end of June was to moderate the closing judicial panel. As the conference title implies, its scope was much wider than pure eDiscovery and my … Continue reading

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Sir Bernard Eder appointed an international judge at the Singapore International Commercial Court

The idea behind the newly-created Singapore International Commercial Court is to expand the legal services sector and to make Singapore a centre for international dispute resolution. Sir Vivian Ramsey, well-known to anyone concerned with recent developments in civil procedural law … Continue reading

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Technology Law Conference 2015 in Singapore: the Future of Money and Data

The Singapore Academy of Law is organising a conference to take place in Singapore on 29 and 30 June. It is called Technology Law Conference 2015: the Future of Money and Data. Its theme is that technology offers both utopian … Continue reading

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Dispute resolution in Singapore and Hong Kong – a turn-of-the-year round-up

It is time that I did a review of eDiscovery developments in the Asia-Pacific region, and particularly the common law jurisdictions of Hong Kong and Singapore. It is perhaps only from half a world away that one lumps Hong Kong … Continue reading

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Washington and New York to Mitchell via privacy, Singapore and Lobachevsky

The problem with running a website which offers news and updates is that people notice when it lies silent – the essence of news is that it is new. In fact, I have never aspired to timeliness and, as I … Continue reading

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A Hong Kong eDiscovery snapshot in the company of Epiq Systems

On the surface, my area of professional interest looks pretty narrow. When I launched the eDisclosure Information Project, its proposed scope was implied by the word “eDisclosure” – only the civil jurisdiction of England and Wales uses the term “disclosure”, and … Continue reading

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Singapore seeks SaaS discovery solution as London barristers set up shop there

The two subjects which comprise my heading are not directly related to each other save that they both point to Singapore’s continuing consolidation as a dispute resolution centre. The Singapore Academy of Law is inviting proposals from companies able to … Continue reading

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Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong claiming eDiscovery attention

Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong only look close together when viewed from a long way away. They all have a common law eDiscovery tradition, but it is coincidence of timing rather than any specific commonality which groups them together … Continue reading

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Taking stock of the eDiscovery world

This is a good moment to pause a little and look around the eDiscovery / eDisclosure world.  The wide range of topics which make this such an interesting field are all getting an airing at once. The stream of useful … Continue reading

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A court-led eDiscovery initiative in Singapore

I thought I had done with Singapore for a bit, at least until October when I am back there for the InnoXcell eDiscovery conference on 31 October. A news item on the Asia Legal Business Online website seems worth passing … Continue reading

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Rapporteur rounding up the Singapore Electronic Litigation Conference

It was a privilege to be asked to be one of the rapporteurs at the end of the International Electronic Litigation Conference in Singapore. Bryan Ghows of UniLegal LLC spoke to one group and I the other, with ten minutes … Continue reading

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Senior Master Whitaker raises the eDiscovery stakes for unprepared litigants

You are busy, I know, and here is another 3,000 words to read. I will repeat here at the top the paragraph with which this article ends, as a taster for what Master Whitaker said in his plenary session speech … Continue reading

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The Singapore Electronic Litigation Conference comes to an end

The International Conference on Electronic Litigation came to an end here in Singapore yesterday. I have already given you the core statistics – more than 350 participants from 36 countries. I am staying on until Sunday – as on my … Continue reading

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Lord Justice Jackson in Singapore: Piloting Civil Justice Reforms

The best judicial advocates of proportionate electronic discovery emphasise that, however significant the costs and other implications of discovery, they are but a part of a wider duty to make justice affordable. That duty is distributed – it lies with … Continue reading

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Jumping Jurisdictions: EDiscovery from California to Singapore

I am sorry about all those words from my brief stopover in the UK between California and Singapore – 11,100 of them, 1000 per day and one word for every mile flown to get there and back. What is alarming … Continue reading

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UK Government bids for a world-class legal reputation whilst neglecting the basics back home

The UK Ministry of Justice has launched a paper called Plan for Growth: Promoting the UK’s Legal Services Sector. The opening, at least, is admirably crisp for a civil service document: It identifies the law as one of Britain’s strengths…. … Continue reading

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Singapore case – Specific Discovery – Sanae Achar v Sci-Gen Ltd

A new case from the Singapore High Court involves an appeal against an order for specific discovery of documents. The case is Sanae Achar v Sci-Gen Ltd
[2011] SGHC 87  The appellant lost and was ordered to disclose more or less what had … Continue reading

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A quick eDiscovery trip to Singapore

I got back at dawn this morning from the InnoXcell eDiscovery conference in Singapore. I was only there for the two days of the conference and had only just got back from a one day trip to Toronto to attend … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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