Where a party's pleadings, opening submissions and conduct of trial all proceed on the basis that a mortgage secures liability under a guarantee, an argument that the mortgage creates an independent liability cannot be raised for the first time in closing submissions or on appeal without leave to amend, and will be refused where the opposing party may have run its case differently and the argument lacks a real prospect of success.
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