A subpoena to produce documents addressed to a non-party is the more appropriate procedure (rather than non-party discovery) where the documents are described by reference to factual matters and the addressee will not be required to assess relevance to the pleadings. The court consolidated eight principles governing the grant of leave for early return subpoenas and set out a detailed comparison of the key features of the subpoena and non-party discovery processes.
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