Ensuring Justice Is Served Through The Use Of Third Party Proceedings

It is common practice for an individual to be dragged before the Courts to answer for a wrong when fault cannot be attributed entirely to the actions of said individual but the blame could be laid or should be laid, might I say, at the feet of a third party who crafted the causal link. When one finds himself in such a situation, one wonders what options are available to him or how to be relieved of the burden of being a defendant in a case. Situations like this have long since occurred and been in the contemplation of the drafters of our laws which is why the High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2004 (C.I. 47) makes provision for Third party Notices.

A third party notice is a legal document that is served on a person, not originally a party to a lawsuit, but who may have an interest in the outcome of the case. It is typically used to bring that person into the lawsuit as a third party defendant. The purpose of a third party notice is to allow the original defendant to