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Discovery – Production of documents. The claimants obtained documents concerning Guernsey's response to a request for mutual legal assistance made by the defendant Serious Fraud Office in the course of disclosure. The first claimant sought permission to give those documents to his lawyers in other proceedings and to seek to have the documents adduced in Guernsey proceedings. The Commercial Court granted permission for the documents to be given to the first claimant's lawyers. However, it exercised its discretion to refuse permission to seek to have the documents admitted in the Guernsey proceedings for reasons including public interest and unfairness to his opposing parties in those proceedings.
Discovery – Production of documents. The claimants obtained documents concerning Guernsey's response to a request for mutual legal assistance made by the defendant Serious Fraud Office in the course of disclosure. The first claimant sought permission to give those documents to his lawyers in other proceedings and to seek to have the documents adduced in Guernsey proceedings. The Commercial Court granted permission for the documents to be given to the first claimant's lawyers. However, it exercised its discretion to refuse permission to seek to have the documents admitted in the Guernsey proceedings for reasons including public interest and unfairness to his opposing parties in those proceedings.
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