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Lord Justice Jackson | e-Disclosure Information Project
Posted by Chris Dale	Mr Justice Ramsey: Costs Budgets will induce “sweaty palms” but lawyers will adapt
The Law Society Gazette carries a report of a speech made yesterday by Mr Justice Ramsey on the forthcoming cost management rules. He anticipated that lawyers will adapt to the idea that they must present a costs budget but that there will be “a few sweaty palms” when the new regime begins in April.
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Posted by Chris Dale	Uncertainty means expense as we wait for the Jackson rules
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Posted by Chris Dale	7th eDisclosure Forum in London on 15 November. Are you ready to benefit from the new eDisclosure rules?
There is more to the case management regime than the risk of punishment or being made to look a prat in front of court and client. Rule changes, both those of 2010 and those which are coming in April 2013, offer real advantages to lawyers who understand the rules, and to their clients. The 7th eDisclosure Forum, taking place in London on 15 November, is a one-day summary both of the rule changes and of the parts which offer opportunities to those who are ready for them. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Singapore seeks SaaS discovery solution as London barristers set up shop there
There is a clear policy here, and it is one which is consistent with recent developments in the Singapore practice rules relating to electronic discovery (I wrote about that here). The Singapore authorities are in a position to drive change in a way which other jurisdictions can only dream of, partly because of Singapore’s size, partly because it can afford to invest for the benefit of litigants generally, and partly because it is driven by judges who are ambitious to make this succeed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	An eDiscovery, social media and libertarian miscellany
In between, there have been a couple of webinars, a paper or two, a three-hour UK eDisclosure seminar and planning calls for conferences yet to come. There has, in addition, been rather too much opportunity to observe that the poor project management skills shown in many eDiscovery exercises are as nothing compared with the incompetence, indolence, stupidity and sheer contempt for others shown by the sort of people who manage public transport, immigration queues and airport processes. Hong Kong provides an honourable exception under all these headings. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Costs management: Mr Justice Ramsay describes why it is necessary
Posted by Chris Dale	Who explains eDisclosure sources to the lawyers and the court?
I knew of Stakhanov, but looked him up anyway and then turned to the next item on my to-do list, a commentary on an article by Jon Resnick, Worldwide Vice President Field Operations and Marketing for Applied Discovery. Jon too is a man of prodigious output, with regular articles both on Applied Discovery’s blog and on the company’s Weekly Snapshot which, as I said in a recent article, is one of the more useful and comprehensive sources of regular eDiscovery information. An article by him also appeared on the Forbes web site recently. I have no idea if, as was said of Stakhanov, Jon has a team of willing helpers to do the research and proof-reading which is the writer’s equivalent of opening the seams and carrying away the coal – if so, perhaps he could lend me one, since the volume of material to write about at the moment far exceeds the time available to do it, and I don’t have a large marketing operation to run in addition, as Jon does. All in all, Jon Resnick (in the top photograph below) deserves the comparison with Alexey Stakhanov (the lower photograph) more than I do. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Lord Justice Jackson in Singapore: Piloting Civil Justice Reforms
The evidence in Aristotle’s day, Sir Rupert said, fell within a manageable compass. The instant communications now critical to business were not a boon in all respects. They remain in permanent form to be studied by those with the time and motive, subjected to a full and painstaking analysis by lawyers, and generating “prodigious and sometimes terrifying costs”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	UK Government bids for a world-class legal reputation whilst neglecting the basics back home
Dedicated, high-spec business court under one roof – the Rolls Building brings together the Chancery Division, Technology and Construction Court and Commercial Court under one roof, offering a streamlined service to businesses and maintaining the UK’s reputation as first choice for business law. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Lord Justice Jackson fights for his costs reforms
An article published yesterday in the Solicitors Journal is headed Jackson LJ demands his reforms are implemented in full. It draws attention to a letter from Lord Justice Jackson, the author of last year’s Litigation Costs Review, to Justice Secretary Ken Clarke calling on him to ensure that the costs reforms are put through in full.
The letter itself is published on the judicial website. You get the flavour of Sir Rupert Jackson’s approach from this paragraph:
….. the complexity of civil procedure is now a real problem and generates substantial costs. The new rules must be simple and clear. Any attempt to legislate for every situation is a chimaera, resulting in complexity and escalating costs.
Those who read my article of last week headed Judges defend our long-term liberties from short-term politicians will spot more than one connection here. One concerns the willingness of judges to take on politicians publicly where the interests of justice require it – there are in fact two points in one here, since the publication of Sir Rupert’s letter is a step distinct from the confrontation implicit in the letter itself; the other is the reference to “any attempt to legislate for every situation” which parallels one of Lord Judge’s complaints, reported on in my article and illustrated by his media-friendly reference to the possible variants of a particularly esoteric crime.
It is not clear, in fact, that Jackson and Clarke take different views – Clarke has been supportive, publicly at least. There are certainly powerful interests with good reason to fear the implementation of the proposed costs reforms, and civil servants are skilled in that delicate balancing act which always finds reasons for blocking change whilst creating enough work to keep them in employment.
It is good to see Lord Justice Jackson fighting his corner where a lesser man might have subsided gratefully back into his place in the Court of Appeal.
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Posted by Chris Dale	Big cases coming for big firms – but what about more ordinary litigation?
Many companies seem to prefer to litigate – or would do if the costs were reduced or at least made more predictable. Lord Justice Jackson drew attention to the importance of certainty, not just as to the outcome but also as to the costs implications. The lawyers who will win business – by beating their rivals but also by encouraging companies to use the courts – are those who are best able to predict costs and keep within their estimates. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Mrs Justice Gloster on disclosure of documents in the Commercial Court
Mrs Justice Gloster has long been influential in case management matters. I once heard her describe voluminous paper bundles as “counsel’s comfort blanket”. The whole Times article is an interesting one, so it is a pity that you cannot read it. I will, however, set out what it says about disclosure: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	IQPC: I heard your judges’ panel blew the doors off the joint
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Posted by Chris Dale	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 early and proportionate exchange of information and evidence in court proceedings with an emphasis on the role of the courts in managing discovery by using their case management powers. My thanks to Simon Price of Recommind for drawing my attention to the article.
The article refers to the experience of international jurisdictions. Those of us concerned with improving the court process are enthusiastic about the exchange of ideas between jurisdictions, particularly where the system of law is similar to ours. Lord Justice Jackson visited Australia as part of his fact-finding tour before writing his Preliminary Report, and we studied the Australian Electronic Technology Practice Note CM 6 when drafting our own new practice direction and Questionnaire. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Reminder: Dominic Regan and Chris Dale on e-Disclosure at Ely Place Chambers on 12 May
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Posted by Chris Dale	Listening to myself talking about e-Disclosure for the IQPC Information Retention and E-Disclosure Summit
I have been listening to a podcast which I made recently for IQPC as part of the run-up to their Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit in London on 17-19 May 2010. It can be accessed from the Summit’s home page. It is not that I reckoned to learn anything new, you understand, nor is there any narcissistic pleasure in hearing the sound of my own voice, but it is no bad thing occasionally to know what the audience is hearing, as Gordon Brown discovered last week.
The recording covers recent cases, the proposed e-Disclosure practice direction and ESI Questionnaire, and the e-Disclosure elements in Lord Justice Jackson’s Report. It also considers the importance of learning about what happens in other jurisdictions, and the collision between the US and the EU on matters of privacy and data collection. It ends with the observation that this subject is one with opportunities as well as risks – there is work to be won by those who take the trouble to learn a little about e-Disclosure problems and the solutions. It ends with the exhortation that “‘Get on with it’ has to be the message of 2010″.
The recording is intended to provide a context for the Summit, in particular for the US-UK judicial panel. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	The 2010 Duke Conference on US Civil Litigation
Chief US Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm kindly tipped me off today that the materials for the conference are available on a public website which contains a mass of material relevant to the discussions. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	ILTA Insight 2010: lawyers risk becoming just part of the clients’ process
The British election has so far not thrown up a single defining slogan, that killer combination of words which simultaneously captures the mood and skewers an opponent. Abby Ewen of Simmons & Simmons came up with one at an ILTA INSIGHT session led by Charles Christian of Legal Technology Insider and the Orange Rag blog. The context was the identification of things which lawyers are good at, as opposed to all those other things which they do as part of their traditional work for clients and to the (relatively novel) idea that they are running a business. Abby said that “not much of what lawyers do is all that clever stuff they went to university to learn”. It was important, she said, to “try and extract the things which lawyers are not very good at”. The corollary to that is that the clients are only interested in those things which the lawyers are good at, so that they, and the charging rates which go with them, are applied only when necessary. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Chris Dale and Dominic Regan on e-Disclosure at Ely Place Chambers on 12 May
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Posted by Chris Dale	Hear Master Whitaker at ILTA INSIGHT 2010 on 27 April
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Posted by Chris Dale	A week of positive opportunities in e-Disclosure
I covered the background — the framework of rules and cases, the implications of the Jackson Report, and where we stand with the proposed new practice direction and ESI Questionnaire. Andrew Haslam spoke about the technology which is available and what a firm needs to have in place as processes and connections to be able to run with anything which comes along. In the pub afterwards, one of the solicitors told me frankly that he had come to the session expecting to be unconvinced but, having heard us on the subject of the ESI Questionnaire, intended to send it to his opponents in a particular case first thing on Monday morning. A result, I think. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Talking rather than writing – normal service will be resumed soon
The relative silence on these pages recently does not imply that I have run out of things to say (sorry about that) merely that I have had a good run of being out and about, or making plans for future events here and abroad. All good, all interesting, and all indicative of a rise in interest in e-Disclosure / e-Discovery amongst those who need to know about it, but not consistent with much considered writing.
Gucci America v Curveal has not passed unnoticed, and there is an article coming up which invokes 19th Century British gun-boat diplomacy and The Wreck of the Old 97 as parallels for the US approach to trifles like the laws of other countries. Another article, consistent with my current theme about objectives being more important than processes, shows how a PR agency can be 100% successful in getting its client’s name out there, whilst making it deeply hated – the SEO is great, chaps, but the effect is wholly negative.
All this and more when I get back from the third in my sequence of post-Jackson talks in London. Tomorrow’s one is to ALPS, the Association of Litigation Professional Support Professionals, in company with Vince Neicho of Allen & Overy – an important and knowledgeable audience. There is one more after that, on Thursday, at which I am listening rather than speaking, and then I am back at my desk for a bit and can catch up.
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Posted by Chris Dale	7Safe eDiscovery networking event on 15 April
If “fun” slightly overstates the entertainment value to be derived from listening to me talking, these are certainly interesting times, as I hope I will make clear. It may be premature to suggest in March that Senior Master Whitaker’s judgment in Goodale & Ors v The Ministry of Justice & Ors [2009] EWHC B41 (QB) (05 November 2009) is the e-Disclosure judgment of the year, but it certainly puts pressure on those who think that they can simply ignore electronic documents as being too difficult or too expensive to handle. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Vector Investments: successful claimant made to pay for unhelpful disclosure
Vector Investments v Williams [2009] EWHC 3601 (TCC) (05 November 2009) is of the latter kind. I conclude from the references in it to “files” that disclosure was given on paper, which itself raises questions, but not those which came up between the parties. It is a judgment of Mr Justice Ramsey in the Technology and Construction Court. The main interest as to costs generally lies in the judge’s consideration of the liability for costs following a compromise and a Tomlin Order. The only outstanding point for determination was the assessment of costs, and the judge felt obliged to consider the whole subject of the principles applicable to assessment of costs. You can get the flavour of it from a sentence in paragraph 71 which reads “How should the court approach cases where a claimant has made offers which do not comply with Part 36 and which have been beaten by the claimant as a result of settlement?”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	New e-Disclosure articles on the SCL website
One is by barrister Clive Freedman of 3 Verulam Buildings and is called Disclosure: the Proposed Rule Changes. It summarises succinctly the elements in Lord Justice Jackson’s Final Report relating to disclosure and to electronic disclosure – I make that distinction because the labels serve to separate the principles which apply to the scope of disclosure and the court’s role in managing disclosure (on the one hand) from the elements which relate specifically to the disclosure of electronic documents (on the other). In practice, since the vast majority of documents to be disclosed are electronic, this distinction may seem unimportant. Lord Justice Jackson, however, treated them under separate headings and, for the moment at least, discrimination between the “what” and the “how” is a useful one, although they are, of course, interlinked – the third question “how much?” introduces cost into the equation, as proportionality demands that it must. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	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 and rest are called in aid as demonstrations because both came under my eye last week without their place in the jigsaw being immediately apparent to me. What really matters in disclosure / discovery is the outcome in terms of evidence considered by the parties and the court, not mere compliance with standards apparently imposed by the rules. The client is interested in the outcome, as are victims of crime, abused children and hospital patients. Rules matter, but they matter less than the end-result. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Free use of Equivio Early Case Assessment Software for up to one million documents
Equivio is offering to make its early case assessment application Equivio>Relevance available to a limited number of participants in what they call the Equivio>Relevance Challenge – see the press release and sign-up page for details.
Most lawyers can understand the basic concepts of keyword search, if only because they do it every day with Google. Because one can generally find something out of the mass with a Google search, it is tempting to assume that throwing a list of keywords at disclosure / discovery data will reduce the volumes of data to be reviewed – and so, of course, it will. Many lawyers will understand, or at least be aware of, the idea that a keyword search is flawed as an approach to identifying relevant documents, not least because “relevance” turns on many factors beyond the incidence of a particular word or words in a document – correspondence between fraudulent conspirators will contain neither “fraud” nor “conspiracy”, to take a trite example. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Legal Efficiency Supplement in the Times
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Posted by Chris Dale	E-Discovery costs-shifting in US litigation
I was puzzled, because I was not aware that this was common in US courts, where they refer to costs recovery between parties as “the English rule”. If one has questions about such things, the man to ask is Craig Ball and, although I did not ask him, it turns out that he has written recently on this subject anyway. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	The Readership of the e-Disclosure Information Project
Let us take the actual statistics first. The graph below shows page views since August 2007. They settled at around the 5,000 mark in September, October and November 2009; numbers were down, inevitably, for December (the same is true of the summer holidays) and then shot up to over 7000 in January and a little less in February. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	E-Discovery and Judicial Involvement in Australia
Doubtless we will get there in the end, and catch up with not just Australia but Singapore and Canada, both of which introduced also new e-Discovery rules in 2009. We used to lead the world in such things, but that was true also of cricket and economic prosperity. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	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 discuss our draft Practice Direction and ESI Questionnaire for the third time. I had got as far as sitting in front of the microphone and completing the sound-check when some intuition made me abandon the whole thing. By tomorrow, I said, we will probably know that the practice direction has been accepted by the Rule Committee, and it seems daft to make a recording which will be out of date tomorrow.
Well, as we now know, the Rule Committee felt unable to pass the draft on which we had worked for 18 months and of which Lord Justice Jackson had said
In my view, the substance of this practice direction is excellent and it makes appropriate provision for e-disclosure. On the assumption that this practice direction will be approved in substantially its present form by the Rule Committee, I do not make any recommendation for procedural reform in relation to e-disclosure. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	No need to wait for the eDisclosure Practice Direction and Questionnaire – just get on with it
The delay will not stem the creation of electronic documents nor moderate the need of lawyers to manage those documents for litigation. The purpose of the Practice Direction and Questionnaire is to streamline that effort and that expenditure so that the time and money are spent on things which matter. The worst fear is that the Questionnaire will end up in some appendix as a ‘Guide to Best Practice’ or something equally wet. If the obligations to discuss sources of data have sat unused in the Practice Direction to Part 31 CPR for over five years, it seems unlikely that the addition of a best practice guide will do much to remind lawyers and judges of their obligations, still less actually help with the process, which is what the combination of the draft documents intends. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Jackson untroubled by delay to e-Disclosure Practice Direction
Posted by Chris Dale	There is more to FTI Technology than Attenex and Ringtail
One of the bright and shiny things in the litigation software market is Attenex, whose visual analytics caught my eye some time ago for precisely the reason why they attract lawyers – they make it possible to grasp the overview and to drill down to the detail in a way which is simultaneously efficient and intuitive. Attenex is now owned by FTI Technology, as is the equally iconic Ringtail Legal. FTI has now had time to bed these products down into their overall (and very broad) software and services offering and I thought I ought to go and see where they have got to and how the pieces fit together in the process. Craig Earnshaw, managing director of FTI technology in London, invited me in for an afternoon recently to bring me up to date. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Dominic Regan on the Jackson Report: the word of the moment is momentum
It seems to me that the move towards proper management of electronic disclosure is now inevitable, sub-committee or no sub-committee. I am fielding requests to go and talk to law firms. Page views on my blog, which averaged around 5,000 in the closing months of 2009 were at 7,000 in January and are heading for the same number in February. If the trigger is Jackson, the parts of which lie in our own hands are the education message and the backing for the Questionnaire which, remember, does not merely make you identify your own sources, but gives you an early look at those of your opponents. Clients like early looks at the scope of the task ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Chris Dale	Millnet offer £10,000 of e-Discovery services for free
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes is, as you doubtless know, Latin for “there must be a catch somewhere”. It seems unlikely, of course, that the Greeks are going to be bearing gifts for anybody just now, but Millnet seem to be. They obviously reckoned that the fear of a catch might be your first reaction on learning that they are offering up to £10,000 of e-discovery services for free, because they draw attention to this possibility on the page headed Driving down the cost of e-discovery which promotes their offer Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Chris Dale	Defensible document review – Epiq Systems panel at LegalTech
The subject of the first panel, and the heading to The Posse List’s article, was Defensible document review. Epiq is primarily thought of as a software company because of the respected and widely-used review application DocuMatrix. In the US particularly, however, they are known also for a document review service. The panel was led by Laura Kibbe and the panelists included our own Vince Neicho, who knows a thing or two about document review from his position as Litigation Support Specialist at Allen & Overy, and David Kessler , a partner at Drinker Biddle. David proved a lively panelist on my panel as well. Read the rest of this entry »
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