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AI summary
The High Court dealt with an interlocutory application about whether discovery procedures should be made applicable in the main application. The court dismissed the application and ordered the Applicant to pay party and party costs on scale C, including the costs of two counsel.
It may be relevant to discovery requests in application proceedings and to a dispute concerning immigration status and citizenship-related allegations.
Evidence from source
the present application is an interlocutory application dealing with the procedural question firstly of whether this Court should direct that the rules and procedures pertaining to discovery should be applicable in the main application
Supports: plain_summary: the court dealt with whether discovery procedures should apply in the main application
1. The Application is dismissed. 2. The Applicant is ordered to pay the party and party costs, on scale C, such costs to include the costs of two counsel.
Supports: plain_summary: dismissal and costs order
This case deals with the immigration status and citizenship of the Applicant.
Supports: why_it_may_matter: immigration status and citizenship context