Read the full judgment text of HCA 10714/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 January 2002.
1. This is an application for discovery of documents in a case which, on any view, is a substantial piece of litigation. Should the parties be unable to reach a settlement and it is necessary for it to go to trial, by its very nature it is a case which will require a mass of documentation. The court must balance, on the one hand, a recognition that in order to do justice to both sides in a case of this type a huge amount of paper will be generated and on the other hand, the discovery exercise mu