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Division and case type: CivilCivil Case
…No suit should be summarily dismissed unless it appears so hopeless that it plainly and obviously discloses no reasonable cause of action and is so weak as to be beyond redemption and incurable by an amendment.…
…If a suit shows a mere semblance of a cause of action, provided it can be injected with real life by amendment, it ought to be allowed to go forward for a court of justice ought not to act in darkness without the full facts…
Division and case type: Constitutional and Human RightsElection Petition
…Shitsama argued that the recent amendment to section 20 of the Act had brought a significant change in the law and that under the law as it now stands only the petition has to be served upon the respondent and not the notice…
…Before its amendment, section 20 (1) of the Act read as follows:- (I) A petition - (a) to question the validity of an election, shall be presented within twenty-eight days after the date of publication of the result of the…