e-disclosure

In a two-page article in the Solicitors’ Journal of 10 December, Michael Frisby and Sarah Colbran considered how firms of solicitors should handle disclosure of electronically stored files in the light of CPR Part 31 and the Cresswell Report, which can be downloaded at: www.courtservice.gov.uk/cms/media/electronic_disclosure1004.doc They suggested that with clients conducting their business communications electronically and providing documents electronically to their solicitors, retaining and using that data in its electronic form is likely to become the norm in litigation. However alien the concepts of electronic documents and e-disclosure may currently appear to some within the profession, they are concepts with which every solicitor, judge and barrister will need to become familiar within the next decade.