Are you covered?

If the lessons to be learnt from this article could be distilled into four points, they would be:

¡ Check the statutes - are your electronic documents legal?

¡ Check the Evidence Acts - can your electronic documents be admitted?

¡ Develop a communications policy (part a) - Loose lips sink ships;

¡ Develop a communications policy (part b) - email should be properly centralised, backed up, and migrated as necessary.