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FEDERAL COURT RULES 2011 - RULE 16.57

Implied joinder of issue after amendment

  (1)   If a party does not amend a defence or reply when entitled to do so under rules   16.55 or 16.56, the party's existing defence or reply operates as a pleading in answer to the other party's amended pleading.

  (2)   Rule   16.11 does not apply to the pleadings but, if no further pleading between the parties is filed, there is taken to be, at the close of pleadings, an implied joinder of issue in relation to the second pleading.


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