14 Nov 2014
YAOMING GONG v SHIJUN ZHANG [2014] NZHC 2838
- Citation
- [2014] NZHC 2838
- Court
- High Court
The Court applied the pleaded issues and the adverse‑documents test to refuse broad, speculative discovery requests and to grant narrowly framed discovery and further interrogatory answers only where documents were shown to be likely within the party's control and directly relevant to the pleaded issues (notably to assess propensity evidence about alleged misuse of signatures and to verify asserted casino transactions). Orders were limited in scope and time, non‑probative or fishing requests were refused, and several specific interrogatory answers were required within 20 working days.