24 Aug 2020
NZ BRICK DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP v MALKHASIAN [2020] NZHC 2147
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 2147
- Court
- High Court
The High Court allowed the appeal, holding that a non-party responding to a tailored discovery order is entitled to its reasonable costs of compliance; tailored discovery categories usually do not require a secondary relevance filter by the producing non-party; the District Court erred in denying the appellant any costs because the appellant's conduct, while pedantic and disproportionate, was not so egregious as to forfeit entitlement to costs; $10,000 was an appropriate award for reasonable costs of compliance.