12 Jun 2020
CATO v MANAIA MEDIA LIMITED [2020] NZHC 1240
- Citation
- [2020] NZHC 1240
- Court
- High Court
The court held the defendants' December 2019 jury notice was acceptably late because the original jury-notice deadline had become effectively redundant after the parties' timetable and trial fixture were vacated and pleadings were reopened by the Court of Appeal decision; the delay was technical and excusable, there was no real prejudice to the plaintiff attributable to the late election, and the court therefore exercised its broad discretion under r 1.19 to extend time and accepted the late jury notice under s 16 Senior Courts Act 2016.