10 Jun 2013
BENNETT & ORS v AUCKLAND COUNCIL [2013] NZHC 1357
- Citation
- [2013] NZHC 1357
- Court
- High Court
The Court held the defendant's broad request for further discovery was disproportionate and oppressive given the age and pleaded materials; compulsion in the original acquisition may be relevant to s40(2) and relief, and plaintiffs' 1983 financial circumstances and knowledge may be relevant but only via focused interrogatories; full historic documentary discovery was refused but the plaintiffs must produce a redacted litigation funding agreement disclosing division of proceeds and cost arrangements and must answer a specified set of focused interrogatories within fixed time limits; costs on t…