Disclosure: Hands off my hard drive

Siobhan Almond looks at recent developments in e-Disclosure ‘Carrying out a search of all electronic data is certainly not the default position; it has to be considered in the usual context of relevance and proportionality.’ The observation by Lord Justice Jackson that: ‘e-Disclosure is inevitable’ referred to the fact that e-disclosure, and its impact on …
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Disclosure: Call of duty

Mark Surguy examines the tension between disclosure and misconduct ‘The logic of allowing clients to do some of the work in relation to disclosure to save costs may be sound, but the external law firm needs to think very carefully about its duties.’ On 6 October 2011 the Solicitors Code of Conduct 2007 will be …
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