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On-site collection
Same-day attendance in the City, Canary Wharf, Midtown, West End and Greater London. Endpoint, mobile, server.
§ eDiscovery · London
eDiscovery in London, on-site or on your Relativity tenancy.
London law firms, corporates and regulators instruct us for on-site forensic collection across the City, Canary Wharf and Greater London, hosted review on UK infrastructure, and court-ready production for matters seated in the capital.
- Coverage
- Greater London
- On-site attendance
- Same day
- Seats
- LCIA · Comm · B&PC
- Hosting
- UK residency
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Plate · London§ 01 · Audience
Who this page is for.
London-based counsel and in-house teams needing a forensic-led eDiscovery partner with on-site capability, familiarity with the local courts and tribunals, and the ability to work under the confidentiality regimes London matters typically impose.
- City & Canary Wharf firms
Litigation and investigations practices needing responsive on-site attendance.
- In-house teams
FTSE and financial services legal teams headquartered in London.
- Chambers
Barristers preparing for interlocutory hearings or trial in the London courts.
- Regulators & public bodies
London-based statutory bodies requiring independent evidence handling.
§ 02 · The problem
Why London matters are different.
Volume, sensitivity and speed. London matters concentrate more data, more scrutiny and more deadline pressure than most, which is why the collection and review approach has to be right the first time.
Risk
Concentrated custodian populations
A single trading floor or partnership can put hundreds of custodians in scope. Search-term and repository scoping needs to be sampled, not assumed.
Risk
Sensitivity and confidentiality rings
Regulated matters routinely impose confidentiality regimes that constrain who can see what - the review environment has to enforce it.
Risk
Overnight and weekend cadence
London timetables assume the work continues out of hours. Collection, processing and review workflows have to run on that cadence.
Risk
Cross-border complications
London counsel routinely coordinate US, EU and Middle East disclosure. Data transfer risk and blocking statutes need to be planned for at scope, not discovered mid-review.
§ 03 · Scope
Full eDiscovery, delivered locally.
Everything a national practice offers, executed with a London on-site capability.
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Cloud collection
M365, Google Workspace, Slack, Teams, Box, Dropbox - collected without disrupting live operations.
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Processing
Aggressive early culling before review, using the same tooling the largest London firms use.
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Hosted review
Relativity, RelativityOne, Reveal, Nuix Discover - provisioned on UK infrastructure.
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Reviewer support
Secure review rooms and reviewer training, arranged in London for matters that require in-person work.
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Production
Court, tribunal and regulator-compliant productions delivered with signed audit trails.
§ 04 · Why e‑discovery.uk
A London on-site capability, run by forensic examiners.
The eDiscovery arm of Computer Forensics Lab, with the on-site responsiveness London counsel expect.
Same-day attendance
Forensic examiners deployable across Greater London within hours.
Out-of-hours cover
Evening and weekend collections when operational continuity is critical.
Court-familiar
Regular practice in the Commercial Court, TCC, B&PC and the London-seated tribunals.
Independent status
Neutral third party for evidence handling; no adverse position on the merits.
UK residency by default
Processing and review on UK infrastructure unless counsel directs otherwise.
Secure review space
London review rooms arranged where confidentiality demands in-person work.
§ 05 · Typical matters
Typical London matters.
Where London counsel most often instruct us.
- ▸Commercial and Business & Property Courts disputes
- ▸LCIA and ICC arbitration with London-seated disclosure
- ▸FCA enforcement and s.165 requests
- ▸CMA investigations and market inquiries
- ▸Internal investigations into City conduct issues
- ▸Departing-employee data theft (banking, tech, PE)
- ▸DSAR / SAR at scale for London-headquartered corporates
- ▸Public inquiries seated in London
§ 06 · Deliverables
What we deliver.
Standard eDiscovery deliverables with London on-site logistics.
- On-site collection report
Chain-of-custody documentation from the physical attendance at your office or data centre.
- Processed review set
Delivered into your Relativity tenancy or ours.
- Hosted review workspace
Configured for the confidentiality regime the matter requires.
- Production set
Court or regulator-compliant, delivered with signed audit trail.
- Chain-of-custody record
Full audit from acquisition through production.
- Data destruction certificate
On matter close, with retention arrangements where required.
§ 07 · Frequently asked
Answers to the questions counsel ask most.
- Do you attend on-site in the City and Canary Wharf?
- Yes. Our forensic examiners routinely attend law firms, corporate offices and data centres across the City, Canary Wharf, Midtown, the West End and Greater London for supervised or covert collection. Same-day attendance is available for urgent matters.
- Can you support London-seated arbitration and Commercial Court work?
- Yes. We work regularly on matters seated at the LCIA, ICC and in the Commercial Court and Business and Property Courts. Disclosure and evidence handling is tailored to the seat's procedural rules and to any confidentiality regime the tribunal has imposed.
- Where is data hosted for London matters?
- By default, on UK data-residency infrastructure with encryption, MFA and audited access. For matters that require London-only handling we can also constrain reviewer geography and access windows in Relativity.
- Do you offer reviewer space in London?
- We arrange secure review rooms in central London through our network when a matter requires in-person, walled-off review - for example, second-request work, privilege review or reviews under a confidentiality ring.
- How fast can you mobilise in London?
- For urgent London instructions we mobilise within hours, including out of hours. Suspected data theft by a departing employee, a search order to be executed, or a regulator deadline that lands late in the day are typical triggers.
- Which London-based sectors do you work with most?
- Financial services (banks, asset managers, insurers), law firms and chambers, professional services, technology, energy trading, life sciences and public bodies headquartered in the capital.
- Do you handle mobile device collection at the office?
- Yes. We deploy Cellebrite, GrayKey and AXIOM tooling on-site so a device can be imaged in a meeting room without leaving the building, then returned to the custodian the same day.
- Are you available for weekend and out-of-hours work?
- Yes. Weekend and evening collections are common for matters where operational disruption must be minimised. Rates and cover are agreed in advance.
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