Read the full judgment text of HCCL 000121/1992 on BabelCite. This HCCL judgment was delivered on 3 July 1995.
1. The Plaintiff applies for leave to amend its Writ and the Statement of Claim to join the 1st Third Party as a co-Defendant. The only ground on which the 1st Third Party has hitherto resisted the application is that the proposed claim against it is bound to fail. That is because the Plaintiff's proposed claim is said to be barred by the limitation period set out in para. 6 of Art. III of the Hague-Visby Rules ("the Rules"). In the course of the hearing of the application, Mr. Stewart Wong, who