The disclosure required may take any appropriate form in accordance with the court order.\u00a0 This may include the production of documents, the requirement to make an affidavit, answer interrogatories or attend court to give oral evidence.<\/p>\n
Where discovery is sought from an innocent third party, the court will order the costs to be paid by the applicant.\u00a0 The normal rule is that the claimant should pay the cost of the defendant joined just for the purpose of making discovery as well as the actual costs of discovery. If however the defendant has been involved in wrongdoing such as facilitating defamation, it may be ordered to pay the cost of the action.<\/p>\n\n
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Overview In principle, it is possible for the court to make an order against a person who is not party to proceedings in order to discover documents under his possession, custody or power which are relevant to issues before the court.\u00a0 The procedures in respect of discovery between parties, applies to third-party discovery. The Rules […]<\/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\/3980"}],"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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36220,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/36220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}