Chandra & Anor v Brooke North & Anor (Rev 3)
Decision date: 8 March 2013
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This judgment concerns applications to set aside without-notice orders permitting the claimants to amend particulars of claim in two related actions arising from a hotel redevelopment. The primary material issue was whether the Masters' November 2011 amendment orders were valid and whether the proposed amendments raised time-barred fresh causes of action. The judge upheld the Master's orders, dismissed the defendants' applications to set aside, directed the amendments be formalised and declared the amended claims were brought within the Limitation Act period; the actions were ordered transferred to the Technology and Construction Court.
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