https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198200 A bona fide omission of necessary respondents from a timely filed appeal may be corrected through amendment where it resulted from clerical or professional error rather than gross negligence or lack of reasonable diligence. Delay in seeking the amendment may be condoned under the Limitation Act when the defective party array arose from an incorrect source copy or failure to notice a substituted party, and the added respondents suffer no substantive prejudice. The Civil Procedure Code discretion to amend should be exercised to advance substantial justice. The amendment was allowed on payment of costs. en-us Fri, 13 Apr 1951 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:00:15 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198200 A bona fide omission of necessary respondents from a timely filed appeal may be corrected through amendment where it resulted from clerical or professional error rather than gross negligence or lack of reasonable diligence. Delay in seeking the amendment may be condoned under the Limitation Act when the defective party array arose from an incorrect source copy or failure to notice a substituted party, and the added respondents suffer no substantive prejudice. The Civil Procedure Code discretion to amend should be exercised to advance substantial justice. The amendment was allowed on payment of costs. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 13 Apr 1951 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198200