Annotation

From the activities of a number of conference organizers, a great deal of attention is focused on the rules relating to electronic disclosure or discovery in civil proceedings. This is mainly because large organizations, when contemplating legal action, are required to search through vast swathes of electronic documents across different products and storage media (laptops, PDAs, mobile telephones, the networked computers physically located in offices) to obtain all the relevant evidence to initiate their case, and to provide to the other side in due course if the local procedural rules require the exchange of evidence.