Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 4867/2007 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 10 February 2022.
1. Before me for determination is the plaintiff’s appeal against the order of Master Maurice Lam made on 14 September 2021 dismissing the plaintiff’s application by summons dated 23 March 2021 to strike out the counterclaim for want of prosecution (“ P’s Summons ”) based on the grounds that there were (a) inordinate and inexcusable delay, coupled with serious prejudice, per the second limb of Birkett v James [1] ,and (b) abuse of process, per Grovit v Doctor [2] , in that the defendant had raise
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