The Court granted leave to administer interrogatories in a defamation case but required them to be temporally and geographically anchored to the specific allegations in the defence particulars of justification and contextual truth. Campbell J held that a general reservation of the right to provide further particulars does not entitle a party to interrogate on alternative factual scenarios not grounded in the pleadings, and that the availability of a prior sworn account by the plaintiff does not diminish the defendant's entitlement to interrogate where the necessity test is otherwise satisfied.
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