20 Oct 1998
GENERAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE ASIA LTD. v. HAMPTON WINTER & GLYNN (A FIRM) AND OTHERS and HILL TAYLOR DICKINSON (Third Party)
- Citation
- GENERAL ACCIDENT INSURANCE ASIA LTD. v. HAMPTON WINTER & GLYNN (A FIRM) AND OTHERS and HILL TAYLOR DICKINSON (Third Party)
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA5570/1996
Claims against 1st/2nd Defendants and 3rd Defendant were severable; Order 22 r.3(4) and r.4 apply to joint/alternative claims but not to several claims; where plaintiff wishes to discontinue proceedings against a non-paying co-defendant the court has jurisdiction under Order 21 r.3 and s.52A to make costs orders as it thinks just, and applying the test of whether it was not unreasonable to join and pursue the non-paying defendant the court ordered the 1st and 2nd Defendants to pay (a) the Plaintiff's costs of prosecuting the claim against the 3rd Defendant and (b) the 3rd Defendant's costs of…