SUPREME COURT ACT 1935 - SECT 23
SUPREME COURT ACT 1935 - SECT 23
23—Counter-claims and third parties
(1) The court shall
have power to grant to any defendant, in respect of any equitable estate or
right, or other matter of equity, and also in respect of any legal estate,
right, or title claimed or asserted by him—
(a) all
such relief against any plaintiff as the defendant has properly claimed by his
pleading, and as the court or judge might have granted in any suit instituted
for that purpose by the same defendant against the same plaintiff; and
(b) all
such relief relating to or connected with the original subject of the cause or
matter, and in like manner claimed against any other person, whether already a
party to the same cause or matter or not, who has been duly served with notice
in writing of such claim, pursuant to any rules of court, as might properly
have been granted against that person if he had been made a defendant to a
cause duly instituted by the same defendant for the like purpose.
(2) Every person
served with any such notice shall thenceforth be deemed a party to the cause
or matter with the same rights in respect of his defence against the claim, as
if he had been duly sued in the ordinary way by the defendant.