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  • 16 Apr 2008

    DEACONS v. KEVIN RICHARD BOWERS

    Citation
    DEACONS v. KEVIN RICHARD BOWERS
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ3046/2007

    The court ordered specific, narrowly tailored discovery only where documents were prima facie relevant and existed or where clarification of non-existence was required; it required Deacons to file clarifying affidavits regarding handwriting notes and steps taken to retrieve emails and ordered production of underlying invoices/receipts shown to be inaccurately reflected in disclosed printouts; several broad requests were dismissed as irrelevant or answered satisfactorily by evidence of non-existence; the Defendant was ordered to provide certain particulars of his defence within a fixed time; c…