Disclosure - Anan Kasei Co. Ltd v Neo Chemicals & Oxides
Author Thewub Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Jane Lambert Patents Court (Mr Justice Mellor) Anan Kasei Co. Ltd and another v Neo Chemicals & Oxides (Europe) Ltd and others [2021] EWHC 1972 (Pat) (13 July 2021) Much of the expense of civil litigation in England and Wales arises from disclosure and inspection of documents. "Disclosure" means stating whether a document exists or has existed. With a number of exceptions. CPR 31.3 (1) entitles a party to whom a document has been disclosed to inspect that document. Unless the court orders otherwise, each party must disclose the documents on which it relies and the documents that adversely affect its own case, adversely affect or support another party’s case or documents that are required to be disclosed by a relevant practice direction (see CPR 31.5 (1) (b) and CPR 31.6 ). "Document" for these purposes means "anything in which information of any descript...