Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd v Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority t/as Seqwater (No.2) [2014] NSWSC 1949

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd v Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority t/as Seqwater (No.2) [2014] NSWSC 1949 Hearing dates: 16 December 2014 Date of orders: 16 December 2014 Decision date: 16 December 2014 Before: Garling J Decision: (1)Pursuant to order 15 of the Court's Orders dated 7 November 2014, the proposed Document Management Protocol for the electronic exchange of discovered documents set out in schedule A to the Notice of Motion be adopted subject to the following amendment, namely, that page 10 of the protocol be replaced with schedule B to the notice of motion of 12 December 2014 and subject further for the substitution of the word "relative" for "original" where it occurs in that schedule.

(2)Order the costs of the Motion be costs in the cause. Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – interlocutory issue – electronic discovery – proposed Document Management Protocol – whether the field of metadata should include relative file path data – whether making order consistent with the overriding objective of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 of the just, quick and cheap resolution of issues in proceedings – little or no significant additional cost in context of discovery – relative file path data will have a functional utility – likely to benefit all parties – appropriate for the relative file path data to be included Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 Cases Cited: Not Applicable Texts Cited: Not Applicable Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd (P) Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority t/as Seqwater (D1) SunWater Ltd (D2) State of Queensland (D3) Representation: Counsel: N Owens / R Yezerski (P) D Klineberg (D1) D Williams QC (D2) E Morzone (D3)