Our Interim Director of Legal Services Matthew Wagstaff provides an update on our ongoing review of our use of e-discovery software.

We use software to help identify evidence and other relevant material for use in our criminal investigations and prosecutions.

This ensures we can process very large amounts of digital material across our cases and is line with the approach taken by most law enforcement agencies.

At present, the SFO is reviewing our current and past use of this software.

A sufficiently large amount of work has been undertaken as part of this review so that I can now provide a substantive update. Some of this work is ongoing.