3 Apr 2020
WHITE & ORS v JAMES HARDIE NEW ZEALAND & ORS [2020] NZHC 685
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 685
- Court
- High Court
The Court ordered that, where practicable, defendants must identify individual authors and recipients for discovered documents and must identify the employee positions of named custodians within each defendant entity (with leave to file affidavits where positions cannot be identified). The Court justified limited targeted expansion (GMT/RMT search terms) but declined broad, unjustified expansion without expert caucusing and a joint report addressing efficacy, proportionality and cost. The Court reserved other aspects for further timetabling, declined to make an immediate unless order, and req…