The Court ordered a phased discovery regime, confining initial discovery to categories relevant to proposed separate questions on contractual construction, rather than granting the plaintiff's broader request for discovery on all issues. The Court held that ordering discovery across all issues would be premature given the prospect that determination of the separate questions could dispose of the proceedings entirely, and that any broader discovery should await the outcome of the separate question applications. The scope of discoverable material for the construction exercise was left for further argument at the hearing of the separate question applications.
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