Amendment of pleadings: An overview

The Amendment of Pleadings is very important issue in the practice of law. No lawyer can draft prefect pleadings, which may meet all requirements and contingencies. With the same reason, the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 provided with Order VI Rule 17 that is amendment of pleadings, to get the real controversy between the parties of a case and to do real justice. As generally happens, a thing may be beneficially used or may be misused by the vested interests and same is the case with Amendment of Pleadings. This article contains pleadings, its object, relating provisions, procedure and grounds of amendment, judicial approach and grounds of refusal of amendment of pleadings etc. with a view to clarify the existing legal position of Amendment of Pleadings.