Cth v Saadat & Ors

• 1. Appeal
  2. › Interlocutory decisions
  3. › Permission to appeal
  4. › Case-management decisions
  5. › Whether question of general principle arises or substantial injustice likely
  6. › Whether grounds arguable
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1935 (SA), s 50
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Amendment of pleadings
  3. › Late amendment
  4. › Application of Aon Risk Services principles
  5. › Whether presumption in favour of amendment coupled with costs order
  6. › Relevant considerations including waste of public resources, delay, prejudice to parties, and interests of other litigants
  7. › Whether amendment raised new claims or particularised existing claims
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Adjournment
  3. › Vacation of trial date
  4. › Case-management discretion
  5. › Balancing competing contingencies
  6. › Whether judge failed to consider relevant matters or merely accorded different weight
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Costs
  3. › Interlocutory proceedings
  4. › Reservation of costs question until conclusion of trial
  5. › Whether costs order required before granting amendment

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