Differences between e-Discovery and e-Disclosure?

Greetings,

I'd not heard of e-disclosure until you mentioned it. It appears to be a term used most often by government agencies to cover self-reporting via electronic means of violations of Federal regulations.

I also found a few blogs that used "ediscovery/edisclosure" as if the terms were interchangeable.

If I used "edisclosure" instead of "ediscovery" my colleagues and clients would not know what I was talking about.

-David

I can see it meant in a situation of litigation readiness or at meet and confers maybe as a possibility. Other than that I do do not really hear of the term. Is there a context in which you can reference?

In English Courts what used to be called discovery is now, with the Civil Procedure Rules, called disclosure.

My experience is that disclosure is the provision by opposing counsel of the evidence to be tendered (Up here in criminal cases no disclosure is required from the defence other than a witness list, the prosecution is required to provide copies of any reports, documents to be tendered, witness statements and 'will says' and so on. Recently a court here ordered the Crown to provide copies of an investigator's personnel file no less). Discovery on the other hand allows the litigants the opportunity to request answers and information from each other before the actual trial and has an examination phase where answers are given under oath (this only applies to civil matters).

roncufley is correct.

e-disclosure is the British term. e-discovery is American.