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New Zealand Case Law

Scope of discovery in defamation
  • 23 Jul 2012

    KARAM V PARKER HC AK CIV-2010-404-003038

    Citation
    openlaw-32485c72_4bff_43e4_896e_3c05542f35a8.pdf
    Court
    High Court

    The court ordered the defendants to file affidavits listing and disclosing documents within the specified categories because they held documents relevant to the pleaded publications and had misconceived their discovery obligations; at the same time the court refused the defendants' broad discovery requests against the plaintiff except limited disclosure of documents generated by or received directly by the plaintiff concerning the amount he personally received from Legal Aid, because discovery in defamation is confined to matters particularised under s 38 and the defendants' requests were dis…