Illumination Zone: Ankura’s Chris Marks & Han Lai sit down with Kaylee & Mary.

Ankura’s Data & Technology Leader for APAC, Chris Marks and Data & Technology Leader for Greater China, Han Lai, in Hong Kong & Shanghai respectively, sit down with Kaylee & Mary to talk about how they found their feet on their respective journeys and what is different about eDiscovery in China, including authentication, data production outside of China and printing electronic data to admit into evidence. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and not necessarily the views of Ankura Consulting Group, LLC., its management, its subsidiaries, its affiliates, or its other professionals. Ankura is not a law firm and cannot provide legal advice. “Just to note that the electronic evidence has now been considered acceptable into Chinese Court under the new evidence provision amendment took effect on 1st May 2020.”

The new evidence provision on electronic data provision in China

There are amendments to the Supreme People’s Court’s Provision on Evidence in Civil Procedures came into effect on 1st May 2020, which significantly improved the rules of electronic data, and defined the electronic data into 5 categories :

1. Information posted on electronic platform (e.g. Web Pages, blogs)
2. Communications through services of network application (e.g. email, text messages)
3. Electronic records (e.g. user registration information, transactions)
4. Electronic files (e.g. images, computer program)
5. Other information stored, processed, or transmitted in digital means.

Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the individuals who made those statements and should not be attributed to their employers nor to EDRM. EDRM does not authorize any of the specific statements made during the podcast, nor do they verify the factual accuracy of any content expressed by the podcast speakers or moderators.

Author

  • Mary Mack

    Mary Mack is the CEO and Chief Legal Technologist for EDRM. Mary was the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West Treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel for 10 years and the co-author of A Process of Illumination: the Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. She holds the CISSP among her certifications.

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