{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:article:93","workId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil-procedure:2015:en","title":"Substitution and Addition of Parties","number":"93","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/93/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK II — CIVIL PROCEDURE IN GENERAL","title":"TITLE II — PARTIES","chapter":"Chapter 4. — Substitution, Addition and Succession"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"Where the court is satisfied that a suit appears to have been instituted in the name of a wrong person as plaintiff, it may order at any time that another person be substituted or added as plaintiff on such terms as it shall fix.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/93/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":70,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/70/?article=93&paragraph=p1#article-93-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"At any time, on its own motion or on the application of either party and on such terms as it shall fix, the court may order that the name of any party wrongly joined in the suit be struck out and that there be added the name of any person who ought to have been joined as plaintiff or defendant, but no person shall be added as plaintiff or defendant under this sub-Article without his consent.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/93/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":70,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/70/?article=93&paragraph=p2#article-93-p2"},{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":71,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/71/?article=93&paragraph=p2#article-93-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"Where a plaintiff or defendant is added, the statement of claim and, if already filed in the court, the statement of defense shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be amended accordingly and a copy thereof shall thereupon be served on the new plaintiff or defendant and, if the court deems fit, on the original plaintiff or defendant.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-procedure-code-2015/article/93/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-procedure-code-2015-en","pdfPage":71,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-procedure-code-2015/page/71/?article=93&paragraph=p3#article-93-p3"}]}],"caution":"This is the English-language edition published in 2015 and attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Refworld labels it an unofficial translation. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force."}