"The Court will expect the parties to have considered the issues identified in this Checklist and to be in a position to inform the Court on how the issues are to be addressed prior to or at the first Directions hearing or case management conference."

Practice Note CM 6: Pre-Discovery Conference Checklist

Simon Lewis
Sinch Software

Since leaving a large Sydney law firm, he has been the principal of legal technology consulting, publishing and development businesses since 1985. Diverse experience in a range of leading edge legal technologies, including developing litigation support systems for clients such as the Singapore Judiciary and the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department. Developing document management systems and electronic collaboration systems for a range of law firms, government department, and inhouse legal departments.

Seamus Byrne
 

Seamus is a lawyer with extensive forensic technology and electronic discovery experience. He is a specialist in providing e-discovery strategies and solutions to meet the specific requirements of the legal profession and corporate enterprise. Having developed experience through his prior engagements in top-tier legal, chartered accounting and private sectors, Seamus has performed key roles in the advisory, acquisition, discovery, production and life-cycle management of electronically stored information (ESI) in several high-profile litigation matters.

Christopher Enright

Christopher Enright is a chartered accountant, barrister, and solicitor. He is currently a university law teacher. He has published a major text on administrative law, Federal Administrative Law (2002). His main research is legal method. He has completied the rewriting of an earlier text, Legal Technique, which has been published as two books. Legal Method describes methods for organising law, making law, interpreting law, using law in litigation and transactions, reading law and writing law. Legal Reasoning analyses the reasoning that underpins this method. Christopher is also writing a text on legal writing and a text that provides a cross jurisdictional model for legal research. Another recent book, Pleading for Change: Managing Litigation by Managing Information proposes a reformed system of pleading and procedure that seeks to reduce cost and delay in litigation by addressing the neglected task of managing the large amount of documented information that is generated by a case.