[2019] NZEmpC 157 Van Kleef v Alliance Group Ltd [pdf, 475 KB]
...documents involved; (c) the ease and cost of retrieving a document; (d) the significance of any document likely to be found; and (e) the need for discovery to be proportionate to the subject matter of the proceeding. [23] In Northland Environmental Protection Society Inc v The Chief Executive of the Ministry for Primary Industries, it was held in the circumstances of that case that the extraction and review of some 9,700 emails would not be considered oppressive, since the...