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…the defendants; (2) the plaint discloses no cause of action; and (3) the suit be dismissed with costs.…

…Thereafter the defendants took out a chamber summons under order 6 rule 13 of the Rules seeking (i) an order that the plaintiff has no cause of action against the defendants; (ii) an order that the plaint discloses no cause…

…of action arose.…

…The cause of action could not at that very late stage be questioned. The evidence which was adduced in the proceedings for assessment of damages was specifically for that purpose and for none other.…

…That evidence was not intended to establish the existence or otherwise of a cause of action. A judgment which is entered in default of appearance for a defendant presupposes that there is a cause of action.…

…This matter was never pleaded (as in my opinion it could have been) as an alternative cause of action, possibly joining the school as a co-defendant, but it was touched on in the course of the appeal, and it may therefore…

…Without either of such allegations the bald statement that the Defendant shot the plaintiff in unspecified circumstances with an unspecified weapon in my view disclose no cause of action.…

…The plaintiff’s cause of action as pleaded in his plaint was based on negligence and in the alternative on alleged breach of statutory duty on the part of the defendant to provide the plaintiff with a safe place of work.…

…issue and while I am prepared to accept that the pleading in relation to breach of statutory duty could have been drawn better or improved upon, it nevertheless covered the basic essential ingredients of the particular cause…