In the past year, we’ve seen a significant uptick in clients asking to use TAR, largely because of the advent of Practice Direction 51U, the Disclosure Pilot for the Business and Property Courts, as of 1 January 2019.
By Daniel Rupprecht, Director – eDiscovery consulting, Competition & Investigations A knock on the door With substantial fines, potentially into the millions, regulatory investigations are a major legal risk to corporations. Many such investigations start with a bang – at least a bang on the door in the form of a dawn raid. A dawn […]
The New Disclosure Rules are currently (as of 1 January 2019) part of a two-year pilot within the Business and Property Courts of England & Wales. In 2016 a disclosure working group was created following growing concerns over the increasing costs of litigation. The working group created a new draft practice direction which was subsequently […]
Introduction On a recent matter, I began the usual process of understanding the totality of the documentation that might be at issue, something which is never straightforward. I started with a discussion of custodians and date ranges followed by the typical questions related to data sources, devices, cloud storage and archived information. All seemed to […]
Competition matters, and investigations more generally, differ greatly in execution from the approach to eDiscovery taken in litigation. Understanding the potential issues is paramount in developing an eDiscovery model that tackles the regulatory pressures faced by legal teams and their corporate clients. In the first article in this series we compare the different approaches and examine […]
The direct and indirect costs of eDiscovery in substantial disputes can be, and often are, hugely expensive. The review of documents in particular has the potential to incur the largest proportion of costs during litigation in comparison to other phases such as pleadings, witness statements, expert reports or trial. A combination of the volume, diversity […]
By Mike Brown Corporate legal departments face myriad challenges; challenges that are magnified if the organisation has a multi-national or global footprint and is involved in multiple industry sectors, especially if those sectors are highly regulated or routinely litigious. Given ever increasing emphasis on budgets and cost control, companies now require that internal departments are […]