The Court resolved a dispute over further and better particulars of a defamation defence, refusing most requests as unnecessary or improper but ordering production of documents and things referred to in the defence (such as videos, call logs, and audio messages) even where the request was not made in the prescribed Form 19. The Court held that a party who refers to documents or things in a pleading should produce them upon reasonable request without insisting on formal interlocutory processes, consistent with the obligation under s 56(3) of the Civil Procedure Act to avoid satellite disputes. Costs were ordered on an each-party-bears-own basis given mixed success.
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