Oct 1, 2014, Asian Legal Business
Hong Kong recently launched a pilot scheme for the discovery and provision of electronically stored documents in cases in the High Court’s Commercial List. The move has been widely welcomed by law firms, which are now preparing for the challenge.
“Hong Kong authorities want the jurisdiction to be the hub of Asia-Pacific dispute resolution, but we don’t have even one eDiscovery protocol,” says Dominic Wai, partner at Baker & McKenzie in Hong Kong.
According to Wai, Hong Kong needed some kind of protocol that people wanting to come to the city for litigation and arbitration would follow.
The new practice direction applies to cases where the claim or counterclaim is in excess of $ 1 million and has at least 10,000 documents to be searched for the purposes of discovery. According to the directions issued while announcing the pilot scheme, the judge in charge of the Commercial List said its purpose was “to provide a framework for reasonable, proportionate and economical discovery and supply of electronic documents.” - Read More -
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