The Great Mosque in Cordoba in Southern Spain is one of the wonders of the modern world. It is not that new, of course, dating from 756 AD when the Caliph of Damascus set up his court in Cordoba and constructed the mosque on the site of an earlier Roman Temple of Janus which had… Read More »
I remember what happened to each of the six wives of King Henry V111 by way of the doggerel: “Divorced, beheaded, died, Divorced, beheaded, survived.” This is not the time or the place to go into details! It is sufficient to say that after many years on the throne, married to Catherine of Aragon, the… Read More »
Talking to Patrick Burke of Guidance Software recently I learned that he is an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. Apart from being Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel at Guidance, Patrick gives of his time to teach law students about the delights of e-discovery. It must be… Read More »
Scandinavian folklore is, to my mind, dark and rather menacing. I am sure that there are exceptions but most of the creatures described are unpleasant and possibly even terrifying; think Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and the myriad monstrous creatures depicted and you will understand what I mean. It is, therefore, not altogether surprising… Read More »
While discovering interesting facts such as the fact that the state motto of the American State of Kentucky is “United we stand, Divided we fall” it is inevitable that in a blog of this type we miss an article, a development or something of general interest……and it has happened again! Millnet is pleased to be… Read More »
The last few weeks in the e-disclosure blogosphere have been dominated by news of and reactions to the various pronouncements in the US on predictive coding. Led by Judge Peck, we have become used to almost daily updates in relation to the Da Silva Moore case where we currently have something of an impasse as… Read More »
One of the endearing characteristics of the law in this country is the concept of precedence. In civil law countries reference is made to the relevant Code and often scant attention is paid to previous experiences and decisions. Under the common law system, earlier decisions of superior courts are the very lifeblood of the law… Read More »
If you thought that predictive coding (or whatever you choose to call it; I came across Black Box Coding and Easy Button Review recently) was the hot topic of the moment, a close second must be reports that the courts are getting to grips with a whole range of issues arising out of the disclosure… Read More »
In the context of a claim for $274m, it might be argued that an order that the claimant pay £135,000 in wasted costs is of no great account. I suspect that if you are Herbert Smith client West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (known throughout the case as WAPCo) you might take a different view.… Read More »
Two things: Firstly, try saying this out loud as quickly as you can: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Secondly, some of you will recall that in… Read More »