29 Jan 2020
BODY CORPORATE 207624 v GRIMSHAW & CO [2020] NZHC 34
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 34
- Court
- High Court
The court dismissed the Body Corporate's discovery application as insufficiently relevant and disproportionate: disclosure of Grimshaw & Co's other client distribution agreements and broad historic documents was unlikely to prove the pleaded negligence or causation; the interpleader pleadings/evidence and the body corporate's own records are the appropriate sources; instead the Body Corporate was ordered to file a further affidavit by 13 March 2020 identifying documents in its control and to make discovered documents available, with ongoing discovery obligations and leave reserved for further…