13 Jan 2022
YAP CHEE SIANG 1. ) NG BAK HING 2. ) YAP YOKE CHONG @ ALLAN YAP 3. ) AMANAH RAYA BERHAD
- Citation
- WA-22NCvC-805-10/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
- Court
- High Court
- Case number
- WA-22NCvC-805-10/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Leave to amend was refused because the application was made at a very late stage after trial commencement without compelling or cogent reasons for delay; allowing the amendment would effectively change the character of the proceeding into an impeachment of an earlier judgment already considered by the Court of Appeal and pursued in a separate suit, risk multiplicity of proceedings and constitute an abuse of process; prejudice could not be adequately compensated by costs in the circumstances, therefore discretion to permit amendment was exercised against the second defendant and the applicatio…