I was being assigned by another lawyer to handle her mother's matter to go against another lawyer. Ya... i know this is complicated. It gets more complicated when later, the one who is being sued (defendant), filed an application to bring in a third party who is the father of the lawyer to assigned me. I was seriously angry and furious when I was served a notice to add the third party into the suit and I have always wanted to strike the application out.
I have been having 'worries' in me since last week (that's the main cause why I couldn't sleep well for the past one week until today) as the hearing for my application to strike out the Defendant's application is fixed for hearing today. I have filed and served my written submission but yet, I am having this feeling that this morning's hearing won't be as easy as getting a ruling date. Well, both the Defendant's lawyer and myself were present this morning and we both agreed that we should just get a ruling date. Well, unexpectedly, the Judge (my favourite judge so far) has asked us if we are ready for hearing today. Well, I am and that's the reason why I was reading and preparing for today's hearing last night. Well, ...
Court gave us 30 minutes to prepare and after the 30 minutes, my case was called and there we go, giving our oral submission. I have no idea how good or how bad it was,... things got through and the judge seems agreed with my point and has questioned the defendant badly and at the end, he granted to me my application to strike out the third party notice and statement of claim.
Seriously, this is unexpectedly. But after all the worries I got, well, at least it's worth it by succeeded in my application filed.
- unexpected! -