1 Dec 1995
BEACH PETROLEUM NL (ACN 007 617 969) v. CORTAUS LIMITED (ACN 008 966 124)
- Citation
- BEACH PETROLEUM NL (ACN 007 617 969) v. CORTAUS LIMITED (ACN 008 966 124)
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP2055/1995
The court has statutory jurisdiction under s.76 to order production of documents for letters of request but only as to particular documents material to bona fide issues in the foreign proceedings; where requests are overbroad the court should exercise its discretion to prune (blue pencil) the request rather than refuse it entirely; applying those principles the Registrar's Order was upheld but altered to remove paragraph 3, to omit overbroad phrases from paragraphs 1 and 2, to permit KBHK to redact/obliterate irrelevant ledger entries in produced copies, to reimburse KBHK reasonable expenses…