No, this is not a post by a disgruntled North London fan fed up with the inability of Arsene Wenger’s team to win a trophy! We are on much more interesting territory! It appears to me that there has been a lull recently in the flood of articles and comment on predictive coding or computer… Read More »
I would not want you to think that I spent all my recent skiing trip pondering the technical aspects of computer assisted review. In fact, I confess to spending almost all my recent seven days in Austria doing nothing much except enjoying the atmosphere, the food and, by and large, the snow conditions. However, one… Read More »
Sitting on a plane recently, I was passing the time between one gin and tonic and the next by reading The Daily Telegraph. With thoughts about today’s Budget filling the columns I was bemused to learn from an article by Ian Cowie that we paid a truly mind boggling £437.6 billion in taxes in the… Read More »
As we continue to see how the various technologies in the e-disclosure space continue to converge, it has become all the more important to know your third party vendor, to get on with the project manager and to enjoy working with them. Preferably, you will have gone through the process of due diligence and getting… Read More »
Bates is a reasonably common English surname. It may derive from the Old English “bat” meaning a boat and thus boatman. It may be a diminutive of “Bartholomew” which itself is a patronymic meaning “rich in land.” For example there is a record of a Bate le Tackman owning land in Lincolnshire in the 13th… Read More »
In the fourth and last in the current series of podcasts, Millnet’s Head of Technical Operations, Stuart Clarke, talks to Chris Dale of the E-Disclosure Information Project about types of evidence which have the potential to trip up lawyers who fail to ask the right questions. The speakers are introduced by Millnet director, Charles Holloway.… Read More »
I love oxymorons. Woodbine used to advertise their cigarettes as the “great, little cigarette” which conjured up precisely the size of the cigarette (they were smaller than the standard size) and the great taste and value (whatever takes your fancy!) For Latin lovers, hasten slowly is the English translation of Festina Lente. An example might… Read More »
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” (Alice through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll). In what must be regarded as a disappointing decision in the Court of Appeal last week in Henry v… Read More »
There was a time when it was genuinely possible to describe software used in e-disclosure in terms which effectively distinguished between particular offerings on the basis of the “bells and whistles” which one bit of technology possessed in contrast to the next piece of software. Nowadays, I believe it is widely accepted that many of… Read More »
Everyone will have heard about the prank perpetrated by two Australian DJs which went so tragically wrong. There has been so much noise out there about all aspects of this tragedy that I have thought long and hard whether I should add to it. In keeping with the tradition of this blog, I have no… Read More »