Time and again in practice one finds that simple procedural points are undecided. You look everywhere for the answer thinking, how can it be possible that there is no guidance about this? Such was the situation in Agents Mutual Limited v Moginnie James Limited, a decision of Master Matthews, where the vexing question was whether an application notice can be amended before it has been disposed of. There is no provision for doing so in the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) dealing with ordinary applications. Continue reading
