Entries in E-Discovery (8)
Electronic Litigation in Australian Courts - Current Practice Landscape
With the forthcoming revision to Practice Note 17 in the Federal Court, please find a listing of practice guidelines (i.e. notes and directions) which form the current landscape for electronic discovery, and wider electronic litigation in Australian courts.
ALSP Update, June 2008 - Furinzic Stuff for Food?
"I asked several industry veterans what they would suggest to a friend who was deciding which vendor to use for e-Discovery or digital forensics, assuming there was some reason the friend could not use the veteran."
Redaction of Document Content for eDiscovery
Many software utilities are available to create Portable Document Format (PDF) documents and Adobe® Acrobat® is arguably the most popular utility for this purpose.
CEIC 2008 - International eDiscovery
On 29 April 2008, I was pleased to present on the topic of International eDiscovery at the Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference (CEIC), held in picturesque Lake Las Vegas.
Disputing Protocols for the Electronic Exchange of Discoverable Documents in the Federal Court of Australia
The Federal Court recently made orders in two (2) similar, yet separate, cases where disputes arose over the application of a document management protocol (protocol) to facilitate the electronic exchange of discoverable documents.
Reasonable Searches for Electronic Documents and E-mail in the Federal Court of Australia (Incomplete)
A widely debated issue for those involved in the Federal Court's recent consultative drafting process for a replacement to Practice Note 17 (20 April 2000) was whether the concept of 'making a reasonable search' should be specifically revised to deal with electronically stored information (ESI).
Discovery of Electronic Databases in the Federal Court of Australia
This brief entry will consider two (2) recent Federal Court decisions where the discovery of electronic databases containing certain business records was disputed.
Basic Document Numbering for eDiscovery in Australian Courts
Document numbering when producing discoverable documents is readily made more difficult than it should be!

