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### 411 Failure to comply with order concerning interrogatories
> > (1) A party who fails to comply with an order that interrogatories be answered is liable to attachment.
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> > (2) [*\[Rule 411 Subrule (2) amended by S.R. 2008, No. 128, Applied:31 Dec 2008\]*](/view/html/inforce/2008-12-31/sr-2008-128#GS19@Hpa@EN) Service on a party's practitioner of an order that interrogatories be answered is sufficient service to found an application for attachment if the party disobeys the order, but the party may show, in answer to the application, that he or she did not have notice or knowledge of the order.
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> > (3) [*\[Rule 411 Subrule (3) amended by S.R. 2008, No. 128, Applied:31 Dec 2008\]*](/view/html/inforce/2008-12-31/sr-2008-128#GS19@Hpb@EN) A practitioner is liable to attachment if –
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> > > > (a) he or she is served with an order that interrogatories be answered; and
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> > > > (b) without reasonable cause he or she fails to give notice of the order to the client.