On New Year’s Day, 2010, the province of Ontario became the latest North American jurisdiction to amend its rules of civil procedure to address the discovery of electronically stored information. Yet it mentions the phrase “electronic discovery” only once.
The United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended in 2006 in at least 12 places to specifically refer to electronically stored information in discovery. Thirty states have since followed suit. One Canadian province, Nova Scotia, has also amended its rules.
