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July 6, 2010 For In Pursuit of Relevance readers in Western Australia, I'm pleased to announce that I'll be presenting at the Institute for Information Management on Friday, 6 August 2010 in Perth.
June 2, 2010 The recent decision of Brian Tamberlin QC, Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, involves, amongst other things, consideration of the record keeping practices adopted by a former company director who was associated with multiple failed companies.
June 1, 2010 "His Honour observed that the computerised information removed by the Inland Revenue Commissioner from the premises of one of the parties contains electronic data which, if printed, would create a tower 36 kilometres high."
May 31, 2010 "Push button" computer forensics is designed to reduce the case workload for computer forensic practitioners, by delegating select basic forensic tasks to those with limited or no forensic expertise. However, the recent decision of Blaxell J, with Owen and Buss JJA concurring, in the Western Australia Court of Appeal is a strong reminder that each person involved in the computer forensics lifecycle must possess basic recognised training and the ability to clearly explain their actions.
May 10, 2010 "The government is considering law reform to the discovery process in civil litigation, and has called on legal experts to tell it what to do."
April 28, 2010 On 27 April 2010, I was pleased to present on the topic of "E-Discovery – Where Information Management and Litigation Meet" to the Institute for Information Management (IIM) Melbourne Branch.
April 28, 2010 As you may have noted, this blog has not been updated for some months.
Put simply, increased professional commitments have taken priority. In addition, my recent spare time has been spent researching and drafting updates to the Australian chapter of LexisNexis Butterworths "Electronic Evidence (Second Edition)" and the "E-Litigation" chapter of the LexisNexis Australia Federal Civil Litigation Precedents.
I look forward to your continued readership, and most importantly, your feedback in relation to e-discovery in the Asia-Pacific.
November 3, 2009 "Australian governments of all persuasions stress how essential border security is in many fields, such as immigration, narcotics and quarantine, but the Rudd government is proposing to abandon any border protection of personal information."
October 1, 2009 Experts Geoffrey Lambert and Seamus E. Byrne provide insights regarding the Australian eDiscovery landscape.
October 1, 2009 "The expense involved in discovery can be horrendous."
September 25, 2009 The Federal Court of Australia has re-issued Practice Note 17 as PN CM 6.
September 10, 2009 On 20-21 July 2009, I was pleased to serve as the Chairperson of the inaugural LexisNexis e-Discovery & Digital Forensics Conference, held at the Renaissance Harbour View Hotel in Hong Kong.
August 3, 2009 The Supreme Court of Singapore has released Practice Direction 3 of 2009 dealing with the "Discovery and Inspection of Electronically Stored Documents" (PD 3/2009).
July 18, 2009 "A SUPREME Court judge has delivered a rare and costly rebuke to a Sydney legal team for "trolley-load litigation", a sin that experts say is widespread in our courts but almost impossible to stop."
July 13, 2009 "IF HELL has harbour views, as a Sydney lawyer once noted, why shouldn't the highest courts in the land? They will now, as the NSW Government commits $69 million for the upgrade of the oft-maligned Law Courts building in Queens Square."
