E-discovery
E-discovery Institute or EDI is an institute that is focused on the subject of Electronic Discovery with specific reference to its applicability in India.
Electronic Discovery as a phenomenon has gained currency in the last one decade. Such is the importance of the subject that various countries have enacted different legislations on varied issues
impacting electronic discovery.
India currently does not have a dedicated law on electronic discovery. However, it still has in place the provisions of the Information Technology Act 2000, as amended by the Information Technology Amendment Act 2008 which embody the broad principles of electronic discovery.
WIKIPEDIA describes Electronic Discovery as:
Electronic discovery , or "e-discovery", refers to discovery in civil litigation which deals with information in electronic format also referred to as Electronically Stored Information "ESI". In this context, electronic form is the representation of information as binary numbers. Electronic information is different from paper information because of its intangible form, volume, transience, and persistence. Also, electronic information is usually accompanied by metadata, which is never present in paper information unless manually coded (See below). Metadata is the data about the data, or the information that is kept about the electronic files ie who the author was, when the file was created etc. It is descriptive information that can not be changed unless spoliation occurs. Electronic discovery poses new challenges and opportunities for attorneys, their clients, technical advisors, and the courts, as electronic information is collected, reviewed and produced.
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