31 Oct 2013
WAIPAREIRA INVESTMENTS LTD v GRANT [2013] NZHC 2867
- Citation
- [2013] NZHC 2867
- Court
- High Court
The discovery application had no proper basis because the authority of the solicitor was not genuinely put in issue (ostensible authority had been recorded), the documents and the names sought were not relevant to the pleaded issues, and therefore the defendants would have failed; accordingly costs follow the event and are awarded to the plaintiff on a 2B scale with no uplift, calculated as if the discovery hearing took one hour.