11 May 1982
MARQUIS TRADING CO (a firm) v. OCEANIC UNDERWRITERS LTD
- Citation
- MARQUIS TRADING CO (a firm) v. OCEANIC UNDERWRITERS LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCL4666/1979
The proposed amendments were permitted because the conspiracy pleadings met the standards required by The Dias and Ord.18 r.12(1)(b) insofar as they supplied particulars of scuttling (or refrained from hypothesizing method where none was advanced) and particularised facts supporting privity to the alleged scuttlings; lateness was excused because the defendants had put plaintiffs on notice of suspicion, the two incidents were evidentially linked by similar fact principles, there was no irremediable prejudice, Zimmern J.'s earlier strike-out did not bind the court in changed circumstances, and…