26 Nov 2007
HMI TECHNOLOGIES LTD V SIGNOPSYS ELECTRONIC SIGNS LTD HC AK CIV-2007-404-006229
- Citation
- openlaw-bd834e48_cf58_47df_9d9a_4601eefb1b99.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The appeal was allowed in part because the District Court's staggered discovery timetable and related statements effectively required HMI to produce commercially sensitive tender documents first and precluded HMI's entitlement to claim commercial confidentiality; discovery scope must be determined by the Peruvian Guano relevance test and confidentiality claims resolved through the established process before enforced production, so the timetable and any order for production were set aside and substitute directions were made requiring independent verified lists and explicit identification of co…