A recent decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal confirms the need for parties to consider carefully the scope of documents they require under subpoena in litigation or arbitration.  Even if those documents might satisfy the “apparent relevance” test applied by courts in granting subpoenas, the documents’ probative value, their extent, their confidentiality and commercial sensitivity can, in certain cases, combine to make it oppressive to require their production from third parties.

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