A recent High Court decision has gone against the trend of more than two decades of disclosure reform, in which the aim has generally been to reduce the costs of disclosure by trying to limit the amount of documentation reviewed and disclosed. In contrast, in Genius Sports Technologies Ltd v Soft Construct (Malta) Ltd [2022] EWHC 2637 (Ch), the court ordered the “massive overdisclosure” of documents, taking the view that this would both improve the process and save costs as compared to a more traditional approach.
Maura McIntosh has published a post on Practical Law’s Dispute Resolution blog which considers the merits and practicalities of such an approach. Click here to read the post (or here for the Practical Law Dispute Resolution blog homepage).
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