21 Jun 2021
WRIGHT v ATTORNEY-GENERAL as representative of the NEW ZEALAND POLICE [2021] NZHC 1478
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 1478
- Court
- High Court
Associate Judge Bell's interlocutory rulings were correct and are upheld: relevance for interrogatories is determined by matters in issue as shown by the pleadings (with usual allowance for facts relevant to pleaded issues), interrogatories must be fact-based and not seek evidence, privileged material or wide systemic inquiries, r 8.41 permits a single appropriate deponent (such as in-house counsel) to verify answers for non-natural parties provided proper enquiries are made, requests that non-party individual officers/clinicians personally verify answers were refused, recusal for bias was no…