Linklaters Partner Happy With Zoom Even If Everybody Else Has Misgivings About Security

The first commercial trial to be heard entirely via Zoom was ‘robust and reliable’, a City partner has said, predicting greater use of technology once the pandemic is over. Tom Lidstrom, a partner at Linklaters who represented one of the parties, said the technology ‘worked very well’ and the trial, which ran to schedule, proved to be ‘robust and reliable’.

The multi-party legal proceedings, brought by the Republic of Kazakhstan, related to $530m of assets and had been due to be heard in London’s Rolls Building. However, the seven-day trial was forced to move online because of coronavirus, with the judge, barristers, solicitors, witnesses, stenographers and interpreters dialling in from home.

The video conferencing platform Zoom was used in collaboration with a third-party service provider, Sparq, which provided technical support. Opus2 provided a live transcription service and the proceedings were live streamed on YouTube.

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