Quinn documents face ‘tech-assisted review’

The High Court has backed a computerised searching method to assess the relevancy of more than 680,000 electronic documents for a case alleging businessman Seán Quinn and members of his family conspired to wrongfully convert €455m worth of a bank’s assets.

Mr Justice Raymond Fullam approved an application by IBRC seeking the use of a “technology-assisted review” (TAR) to go through the documents to determine whether they should be disclosed by the bank in advance of its action.

IBRC is suing Mr Quinn, members of his family, and a number of companies and individuals, claiming there was a conspiracy to put the assets in the Quinns’ international property group beyond the bank’s reach.