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  • 19 May 2010

    RIDDIFORD V WATSON AND ANOR HC WN CIV-2009-435-127

    Citation
    openlaw-88333fc9_8c90_410a_a827_f65d241c9802.pdf
    Court
    High Court

    The Court ordered limited discovery and interrogatory compliance: defendants must disclose invoices and relevant documents showing prices paid for honey sourced to Te Awaiti Station from 2004 to the date of proceedings and must disclose documentary basis for earlier interrogatory answers (pre-2007) while refusing discovery of export/test certificates and refusing discovery against non-parties absent service or where the Official Information Act provides the proper route; the Court limited and directed answers to specific interrogatories that were relevant and necessary while refusing or disal…