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What does Date ranges mean?
Date ranges are start and end dates used to confine document identification, searching and review to a defined period. The expression is descriptive, not typically defined in legislation or case law, but is widely used across disclosure/discovery, data access and information governance.
Practitioners apply date ranges to disclosure/discovery (CPR and PD 57AD in England and Wales; Order 24 in Northern Ireland; Rules of the Superior Courts, Order 31, in Ireland; and recovery of documents via specification/commission and diligence in Scotland), DSARs under the UK GDPR and Irish GDPR, FOI requests, and legal hold or due diligence exercises.
They promote relevance, proportionality and reasonableness by limiting searches to periods when relevant events occurred. Date ranges are typically agreed between parties or set by the court; they may vary for different custodians or issues, and can be inclusive of the start and end dates. Where challenged, the court may refine ranges considering burden and necessity.
In eDisclosure/eDiscovery platforms, date filters are standard; audit trails should record the applied ranges. Across the UK and Ireland, courts expect narrowly tailored, time‑bounded requests; Scottish specifications must be specific and time‑limited; Irish and Northern Irish discovery must be necessary. Parties should justify selected ranges by reference to pleadings,...
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