Further advances in Technology Assisted Review (TAR)

1 Introduction

Technology Assisted Review (TAR), or predictive coding, is an alternative to the traditional manual review of documents.

It involves:

• The manual review by senior members of a legal team of a small subset of documents to identify whether they belong to certain categories (relevant, not relevant, privileged, etc.)
• Computer analysis to apply the characteristics of the subset to the full population of documents to group them into the same categories. The resulting document set is consistently categorised using a process which is both auditable and repeatable.

Computer Assisted Review (CAR) and Technology Assisted Review (TAR) are interchangeable terms.