There is one major difference between the general run of discovery problems and those relating to international and cross-border discovery. The former are soluble – competence and co-operation coupled with judicial management would fix most ediscovery problems tomorrow; the trans-jurisdictional issues involve serious conflicts, not just of laws but of culture. As things stand, these seem irreconcilable, and it sometimes feels that the best we can do is to make people aware of and sensitive to the issues.
The panel assembled to discuss these matters at CEIC was well-qualified. M James Daley of Daley & Fey, LLP is Co-Chair of The Sedona Conference Working Group on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6) and a member of a delegation which recently met with the Article 29 Working Party in Brussels (see my article Sedona Conference WG6 presentation to Article 29 Working Party in Brussels. Dominic Jaar of Ledjit Consulting Inc., is Chief Executive Officer at Canadian Centre for Court Technology and is a member of The Sedona Conference’s working groups 1 (USA) and 6 (International). George Rudoy of Shearman & Sterling, LLP has more practical experience than almost anyone of managing and doing foreign data collections. Patrick Burke of Guidance Software was the moderator. Read the rest of this entry »
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