12 May 2021
WAITAKERE GROUP LTD v JAMES HARDIE NEW ZEALAND LTD [2021] NZHC 1052
- Citation
- [2021] NZHC 1052
- Court
- High Court
The court held that interrogatories asking categorical yes/no questions about whether specific testing of Harditex and Monotek occurred were relevant and necessary and not unduly burdensome, but excluded and refused to order answers to interrogatories that were open-ended, ambiguous or amounted to de-facto discovery (notably requests for documentary listings or for 'who conducted' tests and 'results' which may require expert interpretation). Leave to amend interrogatory 188 (clerical date error) was granted; amendment/answering of interrogatory 247 was adjourned and timetabled. Specific inter…