[2017] NZEmpC 56 Nel v ASB Bank Ltd [pdf, 179 KB]
...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. [36] I also note that in Northland Environmental Protection Society Investigation v Chief Executive of the Ministry for Primary Industry, it was held in the circumstances of that case that the extraction and review of some 9,700 emails would not be considered oppressive...