Green v Commissioner of Inland Revenue - [1991] 3 NZLR 8

Practice and procedure — Discovery, production and inspection — Public interest immunity — Commissioner of Inland Revenue objected to production of certain documents claiming public interest immunity — Whether High Court Rules had widened scope of discovery — Whether the documents were relevant to and necessary for consideration of substantive issue — Whether public interest of non-disclosure outweighed public interest in due administration of justice — Whether documents should be discovered — High Court Rules, RR 307 and 312.