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}{\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 '}{\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 Letter of Request'}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 for the examination of four named witnesses}{\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 (notably not including the plaintiff)}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 residing in Melbourne, Australia. \par \par The sole ground deposed in counsel's affidavit in support of the application is: }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 "... the cost of recording their evidence in Fiji will be prohibitive."}{ \f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 No effort has been made to qualify the 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expert'}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 witnesses evidence relates to a secondary issue rather than to the primary question of negligence. \par \par Indeed all of this necessary information including the fact of the plaintiff's confinement to a wheelchair was sought to be introduced by counsel in oral submissions. \par \par Not surprisingly defence counsel strongly objected to the nature and content of counsel's submissions and if I may say so with some justification. \par \par Counsel also complained at the long delay in making this application.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 Reference was made to the fact that the accident occurred in}{\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 April 1987}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 and was not instituted until almost 2 1/2 years later in}{\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 September 1989}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 .}{ \f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 The fact that there have been 2 amendments to the }{ \b\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 Statement of Claim}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 , with the more recent involving the entire claim and, more importantly, the vacating of 3 firm trial dates at the request of counsel for the plaintiff to enable the present application to be made. \par \par Having considered the matter however I do not accept that this application is unduly late or is not an honest one. \par \par I accept that this Court has a wide discretion to grant the plaintiff's application where it }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 "... appears necessary for the purposes of justice"}{ \f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 .}{\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 The }{ \b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 "purposes of justice"}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 however are not only served by advancing the interests of plaintiffs.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 These must be carefully weighed against the interests of defendants and all the circumstances of each case. \par \par In this regard the court is asked to consider the not inconsiderable inconvenience and expense involved in instructing Australian Counsel to appear and cross-examine the plaintiff's witnesses whose depositions are to be recorded. \par \par Needless to say it was the plaintiff herself who chose this forum in which to institute her action and as was said by }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 Chitty J.}{ \f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 in }{\b\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 Ross v. Woodford}{ \b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 (1894) 1 Ch. D. 38}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 at }{ \b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 p. 42}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 :}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 \par \par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\sa120\nowidctlpar\tx-720\tx0\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid3894578 {\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 "There are many cases where the Court has been reluctant to accede to applications by a plaintiff to take evidence abroad because the tribunal has been chosen by the plaintiff himself}{ \b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 :}{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 so too with regard to the case of the plaintiff asking for a commission to examine himself, the Court has full discretion, but it exercises that discretion strictly, and does not grant the application unless a very strong case is made out;"}{ \b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3894578 {\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 \par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 I am also mindful that the lay witness who is sought to be examined was a passenger in the plaintiff's vehicle at the time of the accident and very likely would be closely cross-examined as to the veracity of her evidence.}{ \f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 In such an event this Court would be denied the benefit of seeing her demeanour. \par \par Then learned counsel for the defence has also very properly drawn the court's attention to the existence of 2 other civil actions before this Court arising out of the same accident in which the plaintiffs in those actions live in the }{ \b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 United Kingdom}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 and }{ \b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 Canada}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 respectively, and needless to say the costs in their cases would be even more }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578 '}{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-2\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 prohibitive'}{ \f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 . \par \par Finally if this application is granted this Court could be faced with the extraordinary situation of having to decide the question of liability principally on the basis of evidence entirely recorded overseas. \par \par I do not consider in all the circumstances of this case having regard to the ground put forward; the paucity of information available and the competing interests of the defendant that this application ought to be granted and accordingly is dismissed. \par \par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tqc\tx3969\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3894578 {\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 (D.V. Fatiaki) \par }{\b\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 JUDGE \par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3894578 {\b\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 \par }{\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932\charrsid3894578 At Suva, \par 26th June, 1992.}{\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid7038932 \par }\pard \qr \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3894578 {\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid2567106\charrsid2567106 Hbc0353d.89s}{ \f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid3894578\charrsid2567106 \par }}