Order for particulars not a stay.
8.
(1) the party at whose instance particulars have been filed under a Judge's order shall, unless the
order otherwise provides, have the same length of time for pleading after the service of the
particulars upon him that he had initially.
(2)
Except as provided in this rule, an order for particulars shall not, unless the order otherwise
provides, operate as a stay of proceedings or give any extension of time.
Specific denial.
9.
Every allegation of fact in any pleading, not being a petition or summons, if not denied specifically
or by necessary implication, or stated to be not admitted in the pleading of the opposite party, shall
be taken to be admitted, except as against an infant, lunatic, or person of unsound mind not
adjudged a lunatic.
Denial by joinder of issue.
10.
(1) if there is no reply to a defence, there is an implied joinder of issue on that defence.
(2)
(a)
(b)
Subject to sub-rule (3) of this ruleThere is at the close of the pleadings an implied joinder of issue on the pleadings last served;
A party may in his pleadings expressly join issue on the last preceding pleading.
(3)
There shall be no joinder of issue, implied or expressed, on a statement of claim or counter
claim.
(4)
A joinder of issue operates as a denial of every material allegation of fact made in the pleading
on which there is an implied or express joinder of issue unless, in the case of an express,
joinder of issue, any such allegation is excepted from the joinder and is stated to be admitted, in
which case, the express joinder of issue operates as a denial of every other such allegation.
Pleadings to be consistent
11.
No pleading, not being a petition or summons, shall, except by way of amendment, raise any new
ground of claim or contain any allegation of fact inconsistent with the previous leadings of the party
pleading the same.
Grounds of claim founded on separate facts to be separately stated.
12.
(b)
(1) (a) Where the plaintiff seeks relief in respect of several distinct claim or causes of complaint
founded upon separate and distinct facts, they shall be stated, as far as may be, separately and
distinctly.
The same rule shall apply where the defendant relies upon several distinct grounds of set-off or counter
claim founded upon separate and distinct facts.
The relief claimed to be stated