Arbitration – major pipeline project dispute

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Background

Anthony Harper acted for the respondent in an arbitration involving a dispute between contractors involved in a major pipeline infrastructure project.  The respondent was being sued for losses totalling c. $15m based on six causes of action relating to issues including disputed variations and project delays.

Discovery involved

• 500,000 documents provided

• Team of up to 18 reviewers, with x2 second level reviewers and x1 Senior Associate assisting with second level review

• Documents reduced to 70,000 following key word and de-duplication filtering

• Discovery completed over period of six months

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Discovery steps

• 500,000

  Initial discovery documents provided

• 70,000

  Initial key word and de-duplication filtering

• Sample sets

  Sets of 100 documents used to quality control key word and de duplication filtering

• 70,000

  Documents reviewed

• Handover