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1907 Unless both parties have agreed to a reference, a trial court should not make blanket orders directing all discovery motions to a discovery referee except in the unusual case where a majority of factors favoring reference are present, including the existence of multiple issues to be resolved, or multiple motions to be heard simultaneously or in series, or a number of documents to be reviewed that makes the inquiry inordinately time-consuming; if the matter is appropriate for reference, but one party is not reasonably able to finance private dispute resolution, the court should not refer unless it can do so without costs to that party.CitationTAGGARES v SUPERIOR COURT (Discovery Dispute) 62 CA4 94 [See: CCP 639, 645.1; Solorzano v Superior Court 18 CA4 603, T/AT 11/93; McDonald v Superior Court 22 CA4 364, T/AT 3/94; DeBlase v Superior Court 41 CA4 1279, T/AT 1/96]
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