Attorney-General v Equiticorp Industries Group Ltd (In Statutory Management) - [1996] 1 NZLR 528

Practice and procedure — Pleadings — Leave to amend statement of defence — Principles to be applied — Whether Court may have regard to evidence already heard in the trial when deciding whether to grant a late amendment.

Practice and procedure — Pleadings — Striking out affirmative defence — Principles to be applied — Whether Court may have regard to evidence already heard in the trial when deciding whether to grant an application to strike out part of a defence.

Equity — Equitable remedies — Compensation — Whether in calculating a plaintiff company's entitlement to compensation, credit must be given for benefits obtained by the plaintiff or other companies in the plaintiff's group pursuant to a separate but related transaction.

Contract — Interpretation — Several contracts — Whether two contracts should be construed as a single transaction.

Company law — Group of companies — Separate personality — Piercing the corporate veil — Whether one company in a group of companies can be treated as an agent, trustee or partner of other members of the group.