6 Jul 2016
IN-T WORKSHOP LTD v. BOX DESIGN LTD
- Citation
- IN-T WORKSHOP LTD v. BOX DESIGN LTD
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ1176/2015
The court held it had no jurisdiction in the present proceedings to amend or set aside a perfected consent judgment where the consent order evidenced the parties' bargain; the slip rule does not apply to correct parties' contractual draftsmanship; where a consent order embodies an agreement the proper remedy to challenge it for mistake is a fresh action (or other appropriate proceedings), not a summons in the same action. The court nevertheless found on the merits that the consent order did evidence a common mistake and would have rectified it if it had jurisdiction, but refused relief for la…