CPDP Conference Who is Who

Name: Steven WHITAKER

Affiliation: Senior Courts of England and Wales, UK

Short BIO

A former barrister, Steven Whitaker was appointed in 2007 after 5 years as a Queen's Bench Master as Senior Master of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and the Queen’s Remembrancer. He was one of the judicial members of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee of England and Wales from 2002-08 and was also a member of one of the judicial advisory groups advising the Secretary of State on the use of IT in the Civil and Family Courts. He has taken a leading role in reforming the conduct of e-discovery / e-disclosure in the UK and is well known for his landmark judgement in Goodale v Ministry of Justice; he chaired the working group that drafted the e-Disclosure Practice Directive and the accompanying Questionnaire; each of which has had a significant impact on UK discovery practices. He has worked closely with Jackson LJ on the implementation of his report on the costs of civil litigation and is a bencher of Middle Temple.