Short, opinionated pieces on the questions that come up most often from counsel and in-house teams. No vendor marketing, no 'thought leadership', just what we tell clients.
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From the first preservation notice to the final trial bundle: a UK-first handbook for litigation teams, with a working comparison to United States practice. Seventy-four pages, thirty sections, five parts, written by the digital forensic and eDiscovery team at Computer Forensics Lab and stated as at 20 September 2026.
Each section explains the problem in plain English, says why it matters legally, and sets out what a lawyer should actually do next. Part Five collects the working tools: worked examples, forty questions to ask, suggested wording for preservation advice and hold notices, a master checklist and a fifty term glossary.
Every PDF we publish, in one place: our digital forensics services brochure, UK support for US litigation teams, and each new guide as it is released.
The most important points of ten guides from the e-discovery.uk library, condensed into one A4 sheet apiece with the workflows, decision ladders and evidence maps that lawyers actually use. Written for solicitors, barristers, in-house counsel, disclosure lawyers, investigators and litigation-support professionals in England and Wales.
How early case assessment narrows the data set before review, what it costs to skip it, and the questions to settle with the other side at the first case management conference.
Read the guideA plain-language guide to RSMF (Relativity Short Message Format) and how short-message data such as WhatsApp, SMS and Teams chats is prepared for Relativity review in UK litigation.
8 min · Practice noteRead in full →Uncover procurement fraud through digital forensics. This guide details identification, collection, processing, and analysis techniques for UK investigations.
This practice note details how e-discovery principles and techniques are applied to investigate employee policy breaches, focusing on UK legal and operational considerations.
Guidance on leveraging e-discovery for third-party agent and intermediary investigations, focusing on UK Bribery Act compliance.
Strategies for e-discovery in UK cartel investigations, covering data identification, preservation, collection, review, and disclosure processes.
Guidance on using e-discovery techniques for investigating whistleblowing allegations, focusing on UK legal and regulatory frameworks.
Guidance on identifying, preserving, collecting, and analysing digital evidence in UK employee sabotage investigations, focusing on forensic techniques.
Pre-acquisition due diligence requires robust eDiscovery to uncover hidden corporate risks. This guide details effective strategies for UK M&A practitioners.
Understand digital evidence in trade secret theft cases. Learn about identification, preservation, collection, and analysis of electronic data to prove exfiltration.
This practice note outlines how digital forensics and e-discovery methodologies are combined effectively in UK fraud investigations.
This practice note examines the critical interplay between e-discovery obligations and data protection requirements under UK GDPR for organisations operating in the UK.
This note provides practical guidance on identifying evidence of kickbacks in electronic communications during an e-discovery review process.
This practice note provides specific guidance on utilising email and messaging evidence to investigate price fixing, aligning with UK e-discovery standards.
Guidance on identifying, preserving, collecting, and reviewing digital evidence in UK workplace harassment investigations for legal professionals.
This note provides practical, UK-centric guidance for investigating suspected malicious employee activity, from initial preservation to analysis and reporting.
This practice note outlines how e-discovery techniques enhance investigative mergers and acquisitions due diligence processes in the UK, identifying hidden risks.
Guidance on investigating employee data theft. Covers legal basis, practical steps, forensic collection, and eDiscovery implications for UK practitioners.
This practice note outlines how email evidence can be instrumental in uncovering and proving internal fraud, detailing key forensic techniques and e-discovery workflows.
Navigate e-discovery in UK regulatory investigations. Understand data preservation, collection, and disclosure requirements from regulators like the FCA and CMA.
Guidance on using digital evidence in UK Bribery Act investigations, covering identification, preservation, collection, and analysis for legal and regulatory compliance.
E-Discovery is crucial for CMA competition investigations, aiding in information requests, dawn raids, and complex regulatory enquiries. Understand its application.
Navigate e-discovery in UK Employment Tribunal disputes effectively. This guide covers essential steps from identification to disclosure, focusing on UK legal frameworks.
Understand how e-discovery principles and workflows apply to insider threat investigations, including preservation, collection, processing, and review of digital evidence. This note offers practical steps for UK practitioners.
Explore how e-discovery processes are critical for M&A transactions, supporting due diligence, competition reviews, and post-acquisition disputes.
Navigate e-discovery challenges in intellectual property and trade secret disputes. Understand unique data sources and forensic requirements.
Practical guidance on applying e-discovery principles and workflows to corporate fraud investigations, covering key stages and considerations.
E-discovery plays a crucial role in corporate compliance investigations by efficiently managing and analysing electronic information for evidence.
This note details how e-discovery supports bribery and corruption investigations, covering common scenarios and workflow integration.
Practical guidance on e-discovery in UK competition and anti-trust investigations, covering regulatory requests, dawn raids, and damages claims.
All 163 guides, grouped by subject: disclosure practice, forensic collection, deleted data, cloud and mobile evidence, chain of custody and more.
WhatsApp evidence is powerful but tricky. This guide covers the common problems, disappearing messages, screenshots, backups and group context, and how to handle them.
A step-by-step look at how data travels from a forensic mobile extraction through processing and RSMF conversion into a Relativity review.
Disclosure obligations require reasonable, proportionate searches and reliable data. This guide explains how forensic collection underpins a sound disclosure exercise.
Scoping decides custodians, data sources and date ranges before collection begins. This guide explains how to scope an eDiscovery exercise proportionately.
How mobile phone chat evidence, WhatsApp, SMS, iMessage and more, is collected, processed and reviewed for UK litigation and investigations.
High-volume eDiscovery requires disciplined processing, filtering and organisation. This guide explains how large data sets are prepared so review stays proportionate and reliable.
Chain of custody records who handled evidence, when and how. This guide explains why it matters in corporate investigations and how it is maintained.
Collaboration platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams hold critical evidence in corporate investigations. This guide covers how that data is collected and reviewed defensibly.
A practical checklist of questions to ask before a document review project begins, covering data sources, processing, defensibility and deliverables.
Metadata can establish who created a document, when, and what happened to it. This guide explains why metadata is central to defensible document review and investigation strategy.
How technology-assisted review and AI ranking tools can make large document review proportionate and defensible in UK litigation.
How to balance disclosure obligations and data subject rights under GDPR when handling personal data in eDiscovery.
A practical comparison of Relativity and Reveal across data scoping, early case assessment, scale and active hosting, with published performance figures and a clear verdict on which platform suits which matter.
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