B & P Falcinella Pty Ltd and Anor v Hamilton and Anor

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Amendment of pleadings
  3. › Amendment after expiry of limitation period
  4. › Prospective amendment to introduce statute-barred cause of action
  5. › Whether general amendment power under r 57 permits prospective amendment
  6. › Whether r 54(6) limits r 57
  7. › Supreme Court Civil Rules 2006 (SA), rr 54, 57
• 1. Limitation of Actions
  2. › Amendment of originating processes and pleadings outside limitation period
  3. › Amendments introducing new cause of action
  4. › Prospective amendment with application for extension of time
  5. › Whether amendment power conditioned on new cause of action arising from substantially same facts
  6. › Limitations of Actions Act 1936 (SA), s 48
  7. › Supreme Court Civil Rules 2006 (SA), rr 54(6)(b), 54(7)(a), 57
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Relationship between general and specific provisions
  3. › Whether specific provision limits general provision
  4. › Maxim generalia specialibus non derogant
  5. › Weight of maxim depending on wording, structure and purpose of provisions

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