2006 e-discovery report

This is a small summary of a Socha-Gelbman E-discovery survey. E-discovery market was 1.5b$ in 2005, it is 3.1b$ in 2007. The market is growing at 35% YoY.

Delayed Justice

The backlog and speed of justice is a well known anathema in India. In this article Ashwinie Kumar discusses some of the symptoms of justice backlog in India comparing them with other developed countries. But more judges, stringent timeliness enforcement, higher penalties for the loser etc. alone will not suffice. We need to accentuate the depth, accuracy and speed of investigations too. Recently SEBI lifted ban on three brokerage houses though the investigation was still incomplete. It is not justified to curtail business while a lengthy investigation goes on nor is it appropriate to allow crooks to continue in business in the aegis of incomplete investigation. Forensic discovery can get us the data alright. But how do we make sense of that data. How can we speed up the process of making sense out of data. Organizing unstructured data can deal with that. Of course it will require competent tools and computing power, but that is a small price to pay for justice; delayed, incomprehensive justice is no justice.