8 May 2012
GHP PILING LIMITED V LEIGHTON CONTRACTORS PTY LIMITED & ANOR HC AK CIV-2010-404-003231
- Citation
- openlaw-3126971b_ed26_44b8_a524_a22aa6448cba.pdf
- Court
- High Court
Leave to file the amended statement of claim was refused because the proposed amendment introduced a major, unparticularised new head of damages late in the litigation, depended on extensive third‑party evidence unlikely to be obtainable before trial, and granting it would almost inevitably require adjournment and cause prejudice to defendants despite the plaintiff having had two years to prepare.