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Agency and trusteeship
  • 4 Nov 2020

    TAUA v TAHI ENTERPRISES LTD [2020] NZHC 2899

    Citation
    [2020] NZHC 2899
    Court
    High Court

    Consolidation was refused because there was insufficient commonality between the proceedings: this proceeding focuses on whether specific documents (the List of Members and Further Documents) are confidential and how they were obtained, whereas the earlier proceeding focuses on authority, agency and trusteeship issues underpinning the Agreements. Consolidation would risk prejudice and delay to the plaintiffs, would not produce sufficient saving of time or resources, and could wrongly expand discovery in the earlier proceeding; accordingly the defendants' r 10.12 application is dismissed and t…