Interrogatorries \u00a0are formal questions to the other party to proceedings prior to trial. The are equivalent to questions at trial and require a sworn answer. A party may apply to court on a motion to request an order for interrogatoris The application for consent is \u00a0made to be Master of the High Court. A copy of the proposed interrogatory is must be\u00a0 filed .<\/p>\n
The procedure may save expense in bringing a witnesses to court. It may be appropriate where, one party has particular relevant information<\/p>\n
If\u00a0 an essential witness \u00a0is not available for the trial it may possible to have evidence taken under commission. An application must be made to the Master of High Court . Evdeince by commission may be appropriate\u00a0 if the witness is il. abroad cannot travel to give evidence. It is generally necessary to agree evidence first before applying to corurt.<\/p>\n
A counsel is appointed to act as Commissioner and a direction is made to take evidence at an appointed time . The-legal representatives will normally be present. Once the evidence and cross-examination has taken place, adnote of the evidence is made to the High Court and read out at the full hearing.<\/p>\n\n
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Nature of Discovery Discovery is a process by which parties to litigation and civil proceedings may obtain disclosure of documents within the power, possession or procurement of the other party, which are relevant to the matters in dispute.\u00a0 It may assist one party\u2019s case or damage it. A party must disclose relevant documents, notwithstanding that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35983,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/35983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}