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High Court orders disclosure of confidential SFO and client documents
In a recent decision, the High Court refused to allow defendant accountants and business advisers to withhold documents from inspection on the basis of …
Amended US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure narrow availability of civil discovery and sanctions
Important changes to the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which govern the conduct of civil proceedings in US federal district court, will …
Party in breach of unless order for disclosure due to failures in OCR process
The High Court has held that claimant liquidators were in breach of an "unless order" for disclosure where the low quality of OCR copies of scanned …
High Court orders personal injury defendant to disclose insurance details
In a recent decision, the High Court ordered disclosure of the defendant's insurance arrangements in the context of a personal injury claim where the …
Irish court endorses use of predictive coding for disclosure
A recent decision of the High Court in the Republic of Ireland has endorsed the use of predictive coding for a disclosure exercise, rejecting the …
High Court orders disclosure despite risk of prosecution for criminal contempt under US law
The High Court has ordered a party to litigation to allow the inspection of an attachment to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement entered into with the US …
Company ordered to disclose documents in the control of its controllers
The Commercial Court has ordered a company to disclose documents in the hands of third parties (an individual and another company in the same group) on …
Contractual entitlement to "reasonable access" to documents was not subject to requirement to justify request for access
The High Court has granted a seller's application to inspect certain documents of its former subsidiaries pursuant to a contractual term …
US Supreme Court weighing proposals to curtail scope, burden and uncertainty of discovery in US Federal Court
Joe Falcone has published an article in Financier Worldwide addressing proposed amendments to the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which govern civil …
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