This short post contains something new and something not quite so new! In the “not quite so new” corner, The Times reports (April 25th 2012) that a BP engineer has been charged with allegedly trying to destroy evidence about the true scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The interestingly named Kurt Mix is alleged… Read More »
I was drawn to the case of the unfortunate Tom Holloway (no relation I assure you) of Niceville, Florida by the headline in JusticeNewsFlash.com “E-Cigarette Blows Up in Florida Man’s Mouth…” Poor Tom was smoking an electronic cigarette at home when it exploded in his mouth, knocking out his teeth and part of his tongue and causing a… Read More »
If you become so caught up in the smallest detail that you fail to understand the bigger picture, you may say that you cannot see the wood for the trees. I am NOT about to break my promise to defer further detailed comment on the predictive coding saga rumbling around the US at present. My… Read More »
Easter Saturday saw the 158th Annual University Boat race between Oxford and Cambridge. As is now well known, the race resulted in a hollow victory for Cambridge after a self styled anti-elitist campaigner with a degree in contemporary urbanism from the LSE narrowly failed in his bid not only to have his head neatly removed… 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 »
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 »
Last October, I was thrilled to be asked to attend the Fall Conference of Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), held in Boston. I reported on the conference and my experiences in posts entitled Postcard from Boston, Earwigging and No Tea Party in October and November last year. LCA is an organisation of trial and litigation lawyers.… 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 »
The Great White Shark which terrorised the fictional seaside resort of Amity in the 1970s was a classic of its time and of its type. There have been a number of follow up films, none anything like as good as the original because now everyone knows the plot. Nonetheless this means that I do not… Read More »