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Spoliation - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: Learning Document Retention and Data Management
Spoliation
- One reason to have a document retention policy is to protect you against claims of spoliation. Spoliation is a legal term that refers to spoiling evidence by preventing its use in some sort of legal proceeding. Spoliation of evidence is the destruction or alteration of evidence so as to impede its use in a pending or reasonably foreseeable litigation. Parties must preserve evidence that they know, or reasonably should know is relevant to pending or potential litigation. There's generally no duty to preserve a particular piece of evidence unless you know that it is relevant. We talked in a previous video about how long to keep documents, and in order to protect yourself against spoliation you should keep documents for one year beyond the applicable statue of ultimate repose for the particular claim that's at issue. Let's take an example, if for instance, you are a software programmer, and you're accused of copying somebody else's software. Assume further that you have email…
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