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specific disclosure

noun/spəˈsɪfɪk dɪsˈkləʊʒə/

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

An order requiring a party to disclose particular documents or classes of document, or to carry out a further search, where standard disclosure is thought inadequate.

The claimant applied for specific disclosure of the internal emails referred to in the defendant's own witness statement.

Topic: Evidence & procedure in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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