Two lawyers at Guernsey law firm Babbe have contributed to a highly-regarded
United States academic journal frequently cited in the US
courts.
Managing Partner Andrew Laws and Bryan Little, Associate,
provided information on Guernsey's court procedures for
document discovery for a comparative article published in the
Vanderbilt Law Review, the academic journal of Vanderbilt
University Law School.
The article is entitled "A comparative discussion of who
pays for document discovery in Australia, Canada, Guernsey and
Singapore and its effect on access to justice". Its contents
were first presented at a symposium organised by the journal to
discuss the future of discovery in the United States. This was part
of an on-going debate about proposals by the US Chamber Institute
for Legal Reform and Lawyers for Civil Justice to adopt a
"requestor-pays" discovery rule, where each party pays
for the discovery it seeks, including the costs of discovery
belonging to other
