Singapore | High Court Reaffirms Principle that Parties are Entitled to the Production of Documents Referred to in Pleadings

In the recent decision of Interactive Digital Finance Ltd and another v Credit Suisse AG and another [2023] SGHC 198, the High Court held that the Rules of Court 2021 gave the Assistant Registrar the power to make an order at a case conference for the production of documents referred to in the pleadings, without requiring an application to be made and before the Single Application Pending Trial. A document would be considered to have been referred to if it has been explicitly referred to or directly alluded to, but not if it was merely referred to by inference. Director Kong Man Er discusses the High Court’s reasoning in this update.

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