Read the full judgment text of CACV 323/2004 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 September 2005.
1. This was an appeal from a decision of HH Judge Chow given on 20 September 2004. On that day the trial of an action by the plaintiff against the defendants was due to commence. The claim was in respect of the loss of a shipment of quartz watches which had been mislaid in October 1996. At the commencement of the hearing the plaintiff applied to re-amend the statement of claim in order to bring in a specific allegation of negligence against the 7 th defendant. After that application had been