Attorney-General v Wang New Zealand Ltd - [1990] 3 NZLR 148

Practice and procedure — Interrogatories — Questions of law or of mixed fact and law — Defendants sought to issue interrogatories as to the interpretation, meaning or effect of documents in issue in the proceedings and as to plaintiff's assertions as to each party's stance in earlier negotiations — Whether High Court Rules extended previous basis upon which parties could interrogate — Whether questions or law or of mixed fact and law could be put — Whether interrogatories relating to interpretation of documents raised questions of law or of mixed fact and law — Whether interrogatories as to stance were oppressive — Whether interrogatories should be allowed — High Court Rules, RR 278 and 284.