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Welcome to the web site of LiST, the Litigation Support Technology Group.

LiST is a unique UK think tank, formed in 2003 by a group of litigation support specialists with the aim of encouraging and developing uniformity of approach to the use of technology in litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Click here to see the organisations currently represented on LiST.

We hope that our work will be endorsed by lawyers and judges and evolve into customarily accepted standards and processes, thereby minimising unnecessary disruption and delay, encouraging a collaborative approach to technology use in litigation and alternative dispute resolution and achieving significant cost savings for clients in future matters.

LiST welcomes additional participants and contributions from interested litigation support specialists from other UK law firms, Government departments and in-house counsel. The experiences and views of suppliers and vendors to the UK legal profession are valuable and will be gratefully called upon from time to time.

We hope that the information on these pages will give you sufficient information about us and our work. If you are interested in joining LiST please send an email to our Membership Secretary, including full contact details and a brief resumé of your relevant experience. At the moment membership is free.

Revised Disclosure Statement (Form N265)

03 April 2008: The Association of Litigation Professional Support (ALPS), the Commercial Litigators' Forum (CLF) and LiST have collaborated to produce a revised version of the Disclosure Statement (Form N265) that must be completed at the time that a party provides its disclosure. In LiST's opinion the existing Form N265 inadequately allows a party to specify what steps it has or has not taken in relation to electronic documents. This document was submitted to the DCA (as was) - Ministry of Justice (as is) - for consideration in June 2006. LiST has now decided to publish the draft on its publications page.

Data Exchange Protocol: Parts 1 and 2

27 April 2007: LiST is delighted to announce the release of its completed Data Exchange Protocol. Part 1 (final version) relates to the exchange of Disclosure Documents and Part 2 (first public consultation draft) relates to the exchange of Disclosure Data. Comments are now invited on Part 2 of LiST's Data Exchange Protocol. Both documents, and the latest drafts of all of LiST public documents, are available from our publications page.

Draft Technology Questionnaires

The subject of technology questionnaires has become topical, either in discussions about a revised Form N265 (see above for LiST's draft) or a revised Disclosure Statement, so we have published on our publications page draft Technology Questionnaires to assist in the current debate. These Technology Questionnaires are Appendices to the 24 September 2004 draft of LiST's Practice Direction for the Use of IT in Civil Proceedings (see immediately below for details). Following consultation the Questionnaires were considerably reduced in scope in subsequent drafts of that Practice Direction, but they are now published here in full.

Have you used all or part of these draft Technology Questionnaires on a case? If so, please tell us your experiences (good and bad) so that we can refine the proposed approach as we work with the DCA. If you prefer, simply send us your phone number and an appropriate member of LiST will call you to discuss your findings.

Practice Direction for the use of IT in Civil Proceedings

Click here to download a copy of the final draft (08 July 2005) of the Practice Direction in Word. The link on this site will always be the most up-to-date. For your convenience, we have also uploaded a necessarily slightly messy comparison of this latest draft versus the previous, 03 March 2005, draft.

Have you followed all or part of this draft Practice Direction on a case? If so, please tell us your experiences (good and bad) so that we can refine the proposed approach as we work with the DCA. If you prefer, simply send us your phone number and an appropriate member of LiST will call you to discuss your findings.

Earlier drafts of this Practice Direction are available on our drafting page.

E-disclosure

Clive Freedman, a barrister, mediator and arbitrator of 3 Verulam Buildings, maintains a very useful site - www.edisclosure.uk.com - of resources relating to e-disclosure (mainly from an English perspective) and hidden data in MS Word documents.

LiST Members

We are always looking to increase our membership, particularly from smaller firms, in-house counsel and Government departments. Currently, LiST comprises one or more representatives from the following organisations:-

Allen & Overy LLP	Ashurst	Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP
Bayer AG (Germany)	SJ Berwin LLP	Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Bird & Bird	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP	Clifford Chance LLP
Clyde & Co LLP	Debevoise & Plimpton LLP	Denton Wilde Sapte LLP
Dickinson Dees LLP	DLA Piper UK LLP	DLA Piper US LLP
Eversheds LLP	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Herbert Smith LLP	Her Majesty's Courts Service	Holman Fenwick & Willan
Ince & Co	Kennedys	Kirkland & Ellis LLP (US)
Latham & Watkins LLP (UK and France)	LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP	Linklaters LLP
Lovells LLP	Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Australia)	Mayer Brown International LLP
Nabarro LLP	Norton Rose LLP	Pinsent Masons LLP
The Serious Fraud Office	Simmons & Simmons	Slaughter and May
Taylor Wessing LLP	The Treasury Solicitor's Department	White & Case LLP

If you are interested in joining LiST please send an email to our Membership Secretary, including full contact details and a brief resumé of your relevant experience. At the moment membership is free.

Membership not only permits you to attend LiST's regular (roughly monthly) meetings but also gives you access to the private members area on this web site. The private members area contains minutes of all LiST meetings, our active discussion board - LiSTen - and much, much more. At the moment, membership of LiST also confers the right for each individual member to choose an email address of member@listgroup.org.

Enter the private members area here (members only)

Active LiST Working Groups

Practice Direction for the use of IT in Civil Proceedings (contact this Group)
Electronic Data Exchange (contact this Group)
Courtroom Presentation (contact this Group)
E-disclosure/electronic documents (contact this Group)

LiST in the press

Due to the quantity and quality of its initiatives, LiST regularly receives mentions in the UK and international legal press. Follow the links below to read more about what the press has to say about both our work and the group.

Managing Partner: "Voyage of Discovery" (January 2008)
Society for Computers and Law: "Training for Judges in E-disclosure" (November 2007)
Society for Computers and Law: "E-disclosure, needles and haystacks" (May 2007)
The Times: "Easing e-discovery?" (May 2007)
Strategic Risk: "Where America leads ..." (April 2007)
Society for Computers and Law: "LiST publishes new Protocol" (April 2007)
The Commercial Litigation Journal: "A new wake-up call" (March 2007)
The Law Gazette: "Showing resolution" (March 2007)
Compliance Executive: "New rules force compliance" (February 2007)
Society for Computers and Law: "Uncovering the mysteries of disclosure" (January 2007)
The In-House Lawyer: "Too much information?" (October 2006)
The Bar Council: "Electronic Documents - IT Panel Article 2006" (2006)
The Law Gazette: "Managing disclosure" (July 2006)
Society for Computers and Law: "The Scottish Court Technology Forum" (June 2006)
The Law Gazette: "Scots lead the way into the digital future" (June 2006)
The Law Gazette: "Protocol offers more e-disclosure guidance" (June 2006)
The Times (May 2006)
Counsel: "An end to paper?" (May 2006)
The Law Society: "The LiST Data Exchange Protocol" (May 2006)
Society for Computers and Law: "Data Exchange Protocol" (May 2006)
Mondaq: "United Kingdom: electronic disclosure of documents" (February 2006)
Legal IT: "Litigation management: E is for E-disclosure" (July 2005)
Legal Week: "Ahead of the game" (June 2005)
Legal IT: "Litigation support - constant evolution" (May 2005)
New Law Journal: "E-disclosure: self-help" (May 2005 p. 718)
Legal Technology Insider: "Litigation support - revised draft out now" (April 2005)
Criminal Justice Management: "Evidence on screen" (January 2005)
The Times: "Be ready to solve mystery of the e-files" (November 2004)
Legal IT: "Litigation: justice online" (October 2004)
Legal Technology Insider: "Litigation support" (September 2004)
Legal Week: "The rules of disclosure" (July 2004)
Legal Technology Insider: "Draft Lit support practice direction revised" (June 2004)
Barrister Magazine: "Digital document discovery - The process of document discovery has become a well worn tool in the litigator’s bag of tricks" (Issue 21)
Society for Computers & Law (April 2004 - membership required)
Legal Technology Insider: "LiST hope draft will lead to IT practice direction" (April 2004)
In Brief Magazine (March 2004)
Society for Computers & Law: "LiST" (February 2004)
Law Technology News: "LiST launched" (January 2004)
Legal IT: "LiST link up for litigation leaders" (November 2003)
Legal Technology Insider: "LiST aims to provide LIT support think tank" (November 2003)
Legal Week: "LiST link up for litigation leaders" (November 2003)

Ministry of Justice Newsfeed

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