Anonymised matters from recent work, financial services, public inquiry, competition, employment and commercial disputes. The same standard of defensibility runs through every one.
Plate · ExpertiseWhat PD 57AD and CPR Part 31 actually require of corporate defendants, how E-Discovery UK runs each of the six stages of an eDisclosure exercise, and how disclosure changes shape across IP, breach of contract and wider commercial disputes. Written for solicitors and in-house counsel who need to answer the court, not the marketing brochure.
Cross-border preservation of trader devices and M365 estate ahead of an FCA conduct review. Negotiated search terms reduced review set by 64%. Produced inside the regulator's six-week window with full chain-of-custody documentation.
Settled at first response, no enforcement action.
Covert preservation across nine custodians. Recovered deleted Teams chats and Signal artefacts. Built timeline reconstruction used in board-level briefing and parallel external counsel work.
Findings adopted; two senior departures; SFO not engaged.
Acted as the eDisclosure provider to both sides under a joint protocol. Hosted Relativity workspace with strict ethical walls and audited every search-term iteration through the DRD process.
Trial bundle delivered three weeks ahead of listing.
Built a layered review workflow combining keyword, concept clustering and CAL. Embedded reviewers from instructing solicitors with QC overlay. Produced rolling tranches to the inquiry on a fortnightly cadence.
Met every disclosure deadline; commendation in interim report.
Sound-image capture of personal and business devices under solicitor-supervised consent. Demonstrated bulk exfiltration to personal cloud accounts in the 72 hours pre-resignation.
Springboard injunction granted on first application.
Coordinated collection across four group entities under tight CMA timetable. Built consistent processing protocol so productions across entities reconciled exactly to the schedule of documents.
Closed at Phase 1; no remedies imposed.
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