Category Archives: LiST

Revival of UK Litigation Support Technology Group – LiST – with meeting on 24 January

There is a meeting of LiST – the Litigation Support Technology Group – at Allen & Overy at 5:00pm tomorrow, Tuesday 24 January. This is a welcome revival. The Litigation Support Technology Group is a UK think tank, formed in … Continue reading

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Jonathan Maas joins Ernst & Young

Jonathan Maas has joined Ernst & Young as an Assistant Director in its Forensic Technology & Discovery Services team in London. This is good news for both of them. It is also good news for the development of electronic Disclosure … Continue reading

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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

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LiST publishes draft Disclosure Statement

The LiST Group has published a draft revised Disclosure Statement on its Publications page. The draft was submitted to the DCA (as was) in 2006 with a view to kick-starting a discussion about this under-regarded element in the disclosure process. … Continue reading

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HMCS forum on IT Development

A new forum has been set up to encourage an exchange of plans and ideas between HM Courts Service and the legal profession on business change and matters affecting the courts. The forum will allow HMCS to talk about its … Continue reading

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LiST Group expands

I have written appreciatively about the work of the Litigation Support Technology Group – LiST – on my web site. LiST is a think-tank, whose members – all skilled and experienced litigation support people in law firms and analogous organisations … 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

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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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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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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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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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Business and pleasure mix at Trilantic party

To Broadgate last night for Trilantic’s last Third Thursday party, although by the time I got home it felt as if it had been last Thursday’s third party. Nigel Murray’s parties tend to leave one feeling as if one has … Continue reading

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Master Whitaker Honorary President of LiST

Master Whitaker has agreed to become Honorary President of LiST, the Legal Technology Support Group. Master Whitaker is a Master of the Supreme Court, Queen’s Bench Division, and a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee. He has long been … Continue reading

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LiST’s Data Exchange Protocol – Disclosure Data

“Part 2 of LiST’s Data Exchange Protocol says that adherence to the Protocol “may require a party to enlist the expertise of an external consultant”. That is what I do, and is both my reason for writing about this area … Continue reading

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