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In forceFailure to comply with order concerning interrogatories
Part 13Discovery and interrogatories
Division 3Interrogatories
411 Failure to comply with order concerning interrogatories
A party who fails to comply with an order that interrogatories be answered is liable to attachment.
Service on a party's practitioner of an order that interrogatories be answered is sufficient service to found an application for attachment if the party disobeys the order, but the party may show, in answer to the application, that he or she did not have notice or knowledge of the order.
A practitioner is liable to attachment if – he or she is served with an order that interrogatories be answered; and without reasonable cause he or she fails to give notice of the order to the client.
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