No, this is not a post by a disgruntled North London fan fed up with the inability of Arsene Wenger’s team to win a trophy! We are on much more interesting territory! It appears to me that there has been a lull recently in the flood of articles and comment on predictive coding or computer… Read More »
Bates is a reasonably common English surname. It may derive from the Old English “bat” meaning a boat and thus boatman. It may be a diminutive of “Bartholomew” which itself is a patronymic meaning “rich in land.” For example there is a record of a Bate le Tackman owning land in Lincolnshire in the 13th… Read More »
In a decision in the TCC at the end of last year, Mr Justice Coulson decided that the court had the power under CPR Order 31 to order that a search for documents to be carried out on behalf of the defendants be carried out by a properly qualified independent third party. Millnet’s Stuart Clarke… Read More »
Amongst all the articles which have been written on the emergence of predictive coding, aka Computer Assisted Review/Technology Assisted Review (CAR/TAR), it is noticeable that few contain references to any specific cases. There are, of course, exceptions such as the case study Predicting the Future of e-Disclosure prepared by James Moeskops of Millnet in conjunction… Read More »
Many of you may have wondered what is actually involved in a project where lawyers decide to use some of the latest technology to help them and their clients make sense of a vast amount of data in a way which is relatively quick, straightforward, reliable and cost-effective? Further, I suspect that many people will have… Read More »
There is a view often expressed that the law is failing to keep up with developments in technology. You only have to read the papers (if anyone still does) or read what people are saying on a myriad of social networking sites of which Facebook and Twitter are the most often quoted. Occasionally the law… Read More »
Lawyers will all remember (some possibly with fondness) the case of Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) AC 562. The snail in the ginger beer case was a favourite of mine at university not least because it showed the human side of the law and how the law related to real life. I was only slightly amused… Read More »
Almost everybody has heard of the protracted litigation between Multiplex and various parties arising out of the construction of the new National Stadium at Wembley. Amongst those disputes the largest, and most publicised, was that between Multiplex and its steelwork sub-contractor, Cleveland Bridge (CB). Less well known are the 6 paragraphs (out of a total… Read More »