COURT REFUSES DEFENDANTS’ APPLICATIONS TO AMEND AND TO RESILE FROM ADMISSIONS: A SUBMISSION THAT “WELL WE WERE LYING WHEN WE SIGNED THOSE STATEMENTS OF TRUTH” IS NOT A GOOD STARTING PLACE

Here we have a case where an application to resile from admissions and to amend  defences were rejected in clear and categorical terms.  To a large extent the change of position of the applicants were based on an argument that the original defences (signed by a statement of truth) were in fact untru...