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Debarring solicitors
  • 29 Apr 2020

    ANDERSON v DE MARCO [2020] NZHC 837

    Citation
    [2020] NZHC 837
    Court
    High Court

    Court granted leave to apply but refused most relief: ordered plaintiffs' solicitors to review discovery and file any necessary supplementary affidavit within 10 working days of 18 March 2020; refused defendant's requests for particular discovery beyond that review, refused leave to administer further interrogatories as late and peripheral, refused joinder of third parties as unacceptably late and prejudicial, refused to debar plaintiffs' solicitors absent demonstrated conflict or requirement to give contentious evidence, and refused to suspend the pre-trial timetable; reasoned that defendant…