Digital Discovery

With the penetration of computers into every facet of our working life, the requirements to produce all relevant material during litigation can make for a monumental task.

When complying with an order standard disclosure under CPR, r31.6 requires a party to disclose the documents it relies upon, documents that support another party’s case and documents which are adverse to its or another party’s case.

Relevant material that may be required for disclosure could be stored on multiple workstations, laptops and PDA's. It may consist of documents, spreadsheets and e-mail and may stretch back over many years. Your IT infrastructure is likely to encompass some sort of server with a tape backup comprising many Giga Bytes of data and multiple backup tapes will likely exist in a format known as grandfather, father, son which essentially can contain either many copies of the same data or different versions of the same document. And of course there is likely to be material on your systems disclosure of which could be prejudicial to your case.

Just retrieving the files from the disparate sources can be a nightmare.

Sanderson Forensics can provide the expertise to capture a copy of this data in a format acceptable to the courts, and to subsequently filter the data first removing any duplicate documents and if necessary further filtering by time frame, document type and keywords.