11 May 1982
MARQUIS TRADING CO (a firm) v. ASSOCIATED BANKERS INSURANCE
- Citation
- MARQUIS TRADING CO (a firm) v. ASSOCIATED BANKERS INSURANCE
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCL47/1980
The judge exercised discretion to allow the defendants to re-amend their Points of Defence because the proposed particulars sufficiently pleaded the conspiracies and privity required by The Dias and Ord.18 r12(1)(b), the Amelia allegation was not a recent invention but linked evidentially to the earlier-pleaded Starter matter by similar-fact principles, there was no irremediable prejudice to plaintiffs, and the public interest in allowing a potentially valid fraud defence justified the late amendment.