Lawyers Call for Clarity on E-discovery and Training for Judges

With the amount of electronic evidence growing rapidly in litigation cases, a survey by KPMG Forensic amongst 100 litigators in 22 leading UK-based law firms has found that there are widespread concerns about ambiguity in the e-disclosure rules, and that 50% of those surveyed believe judges and masters should be trained on the difficulties routinely faced in an e-disclosure exercise.

The research, carried out on KPMG Forensic’s behalf by Ipsos Mori, found that overall 48 percent of those surveyed believe that judges and masters are ill-equipped to make effective e-disclosure case management decisions. Amongst those litigators more heavily involved in e-disclosure, this rises to 71 percent.