Discovery from prospective defendant
32.05 Discovery from prospective defendant
Where:
(a) there is reasonable cause to believe that the applicant has or may have the right to obtain relief in the Court from a person whose description he has ascertained;
(b) after making all reasonable inquiries, the applicant has not sufficient information to enable him to decide whether to commence a proceeding in the Court to obtain that relief; and
(c) there is reasonable cause to believe that the person has or is likely to have or has had or is likely to have had in his possession a document relating to the question whether the applicant has the right to obtain the relief and that inspection of the document by the applicant would assist him to make the decision,
the Court may order that the person shall make discovery to the applicant of a document of the kind described in paragraph (c).
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