JUDGMENT

Kang Hwee Gee J:

Enclosure 66

[1] This is an appeal by the defendants against the decision of the Senior Assistant Registrar in dismissing their application to compel the plaintiffs to produce documents which are in the possession of the plaintiffs. The said documents are numerous agreements signed between the plaintiffs and the defendants referred to in the plaintiffs' statement of claim which the plaintiffs are relying on to prosecute their claim.

[2] The application is made under O. 24 r. 10 of the Rules of the High 1980 which read as follows:

10. (1) Any party to a cause or matter shall be entitled at any time to serve a notice in Form 43 on any other party in whose pleadings or affidavits reference is made to any document requiring him to produce that document for the inspection of the party giving the notice and to permit him to take copies thereof.

(2) The party on whom a notice is served under paragraph (1) must, within 4 days after service of the notice, serve on the party giving the notice a notice in Form 44 stating a time within 7 days after the service thereof at which the documents, or such of them as he does not object to produce, may be inspected at a place s