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The court found the interrogatories sought were sufficiently relevant to the core issue of employment status and necessary to enable proper preparation and to save costs; it therefore ordered the specified interrogatories to be served and answered by sworn affidavit within the prescribed periods and rejected the unsigned statement as inadmissible evidence.
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The Court of First Instance refused to compel a further affidavit on document destruction and partially dealt with interrogatories about preservation, deletion, and discovery.
The High Court dismissed the plaintiff’s appeal against withdrawal of interrogatories in a trust dispute, holding the requests irrelevant, premature, and a fishing exercise.
The District Court dismissed extensive interrogatories and subpoena applications in an equal opportunities case, finding them prolix, oppressive and largely fishing.
District Court decision on interlocutory summonses in an employees’ compensation claim: a supplemental witness statement was withdrawn, a psychiatric expert was allowed, and most interrogatories were refused.
The Court of First Instance dismissed an appeal against refusal to set aside a default judgment and refusal of relief from sanctions in a money-lending debt claim.
The Court of First Instance dismissed Chen HQ’s appeal, allowed the defendants’ striking out application, and held the interrogatories unnecessary and irrelevant.
Interlocutory medical-negligence ruling on verification, interrogatories and amendment of pleadings. The court ordered limited verification relief, allowed only selected interrogatories, and trimmed amendments beyond leave.
The Lands Tribunal refused leave to administer interrogatories in a building management dispute, finding the pleaded case did not support negotiating damages.
The court admitted missing tax assessments and related documents on appeal, finding they were relevant to the disputed earnings issue in a personal injuries claim.
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