Abstract :
As the legal profession braces itself for a torrent of credit-crunch inspired fraud cases, pressure is mounting for an end to the conspiracy of silence over electronically-stored information. Be counselled: when the tide of \´credit-crunch\´ lawsuits washes up on the shores of the UK\´s legal system, it will shake the profession to its pink- ribboned foundations. The evidence abounds, and the jury is very definitely in: in the UK, former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer predicts that there is "going to be litigation on a scale that we have not seen before". Already, a helpline set up by the UK\´s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) reports "hundreds of instances" of City of London fraud coming in by phone and by email.
