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New Zealand Case Law

Disclosure of settlement agreements
  • 29 Feb 2008

    HAYLOCK V PATEK HC AK CIV.1999-404-899

    Citation
    openlaw-b08be59f_646e_4f80_8a39_b1009edc75bf.pdf
    Court
    High Court

    Leave to discontinue was granted unconditionally to the fourth plaintiff; the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the Wellington settlement agreement was sufficiently relevant and necessary to warrant discovery and the application for its disclosure was dismissed; discovery of the four witness statements was dismissed as superfluous because r 441J(e) prevents parties using statements served in other proceedings before they are given in evidence; a non-party discovery order against Abano Healthcare was granted; the pre-trial timetable was amended and trial commencement confirmed for 5 May 20…