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Levitate Mobile v. Standard Chartered (2026): the Order XI threshold for belated documents is 'reasonable cause' — but a five-year-late application was still rightly refused

The Supreme Court accepted that the correct standard for producing additional documents under Order XI CPC in a commercial suit is 'reasonable cause', not 'sufficient cause' — yet dismissed the appeal, holding that even on that lower threshold there was no justification for a 2023 application to add emails, vendor agreements and server data that were always in the applicant's own possession. The Commercial Courts Act's timelines do not permit a piecemeal approach to evidence, however voluminous the record.