Bloomberg Law
Feb. 18, 2016, 8:56 PM UTC

U.K. Decision Signals Growing Automation in Discovery Process

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

A U.K. court ruled this week that using humans to review 3 million documents would carry “unreasonable” costs and ordered the use of culling software, a sign of the ascending role that technology plays in the discovery process throughout the world.

Master Matthews of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division in London, characterized his 14-page decision in the case, Pyrrho Investments Limited v. MWB Property Limited, as the first in the U.K. to explicitly approve predictive coding software, and he noted judges in both the U.S. and Ireland that have already done so.

The case centers on a breach of fiduciary duty business dispute between several businesses ...

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