31 Jul 2013
BUNTING v BUCHANAN [2013] NZHC 1921
- Citation
- [2013] NZHC 1921
- Court
- High Court
Applicants failed to establish a sufficient evidential basis that relevant electronic metadata exists and is necessary to show fabrication or collusion, and the relevance was speculative while the proposed forensic access would be an unjustified intrusion; further, legal advice obtained by the liquidator in performing his statutory duties is privileged to the liquidator rather than to the company, so the applicants' challenge to privilege fails; accordingly the application for particular discovery and the challenge to privilege are dismissed.