Practitioners seeking to enforce US letters of request for depositions in NSW must ensure the request clearly specifies it is for evidence (not discovery) depositions, limits topics to specific anticipated evidence rather than broad investigation, and does not seek procedures inconsistent with evidence-taking (such as leading questions in examination-in-chief). The failure to comply with the requesting jurisdiction's own procedural rules distinguishing evidence from discovery depositions will weigh heavily against the application.
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