Ron West Motors Ltd v Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand - [1989] 3 NZLR 433

Practice and procedure — Discovery — Inspection of documents — Defamation — Television consumer protection programme was expected to criticise the business activities of a used motor vehicle dealer — Whether, before programme was televised, Broadcasting Corporation should be required to show the dealer the script of the programme — High Court Rules RR 300, 307, 310 and 312.

Injunction — Interim Injunction — Defamation — Defences — Justification — A used motor vehicle dealer's business activities were to be the subject of a consumer protection television programme — Advertising for the programme and previous "Fair Go" programmes concerning the business caused the dealer to fear that the programme would be defamatory, and dealer sought an interim injunction to prevent its screening — Producers of the programme pleaded justification but refused to allow dealer to see the script of the proposed programme — Whether interim injunction should be granted.