13 Oct 2017
KP FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD v. BOK FAT YUEN SPENDER AND OTHERS
- Citation
- KP FINANCIAL SERVICES LTD v. BOK FAT YUEN SPENDER AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA429/2016
Where a third party notice is issued under Order 16(1)(c) there is generally no necessity to order exchange of formal pleadings between the defendant and the third party if the issues to be determined are stated with sufficient precision; the court declined to order exchange of pleadings between KPFS and AH&Co because the issues in the third party notices were by and large sufficiently defined and the purposes of third party procedure (avoiding multiplicity and binding findings) would be frustrated by requiring pleadings; instead the court permitted exchange of succinct statements or an agree…