Attorney-General v Equiticorp Industries Group Ltd (in Statutory Management)

Judgment date: 11/12/1995
Court: NZCA
Judge: Richardson, McKay and Henry JJ
Citation: [1996] 1 NZLR 528;
Catchwords: Contract;  Interpretation;  Interrelated contracts;  Whether two contracts were elements of single transaction;  

Practice and procedure;  Pleadings;  Amendment and striking out;  Whether defence should be amended or struck out;  

Equity;  Equitable remedies;  Equitable compensation;  Application of clean hands principle;  

Corporations;  Holding companies;  Relationship between companies;  Whether one company in group is agent, trustee, partner of the others;