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1. This is an application to strike out the Points of Claim, brought by the five corporate defendants in this Action. I will, for the sake of convenience, call them D3 to D7. The application is brought under Order 18 Rule 19(1) of the Rules of the Supreme Court, the main ground being that the Points of Claim disclose no reasonable cause of action. In the course of argument, other grounds were relied upon, perhaps upon the implied invitation of the Bench: these are under sub-paragraphs (b) and (c