Here is an interesting post from across the pond about e-discovery and Ireland.
From Project Counsel:
New Irish court rules in relation to e-discovery beginning to impact legal practice
According to a recent article by Matheson Ormsby Prentice, the leading Irish corporate law firm, the new court rules in relation to e-discovery which came into effect on 16 April 2009 (click here for the rules) and apply to litigation in the Superior Courts, are now beginning to impact Irish legal practice. The new rules make it easier to seek and inspect such evidence and seek to strike a balance between parties’ rights to access relevant evidence, and avoiding excessive burden and expense on parties giving discovery of electronically stored information (ESI).
As the firm indicated “a substantial amount of documentation is now created and/or stored electronically and this electronic equipment often contains important evidence. The new rules set out specific obligations with regard to electronic discovery”…
