Read the full judgment text of HCA 002541/1993 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 June 1999.
1. This action was commenced in 1993. It has not yet been set down for trial. The Defendants applied to dismiss the action for want of prosecution or as an abuse of the process of the court . Master Bennett dismissed that application, provided that the Plaintiff applied to set the action down for trial within 21 days. He found that such delay as there had been on the part of the Plaintiff was excusable, and that the Defendants had not established that that delay had caused them any prejudice . I