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1. UPC-Court of Appeal: Procedural decisions on change of claim

   Pursuant to R 263.2 RoP, a request to amend the claim must be rejected if only one of the situations of exclusion set forth under (a) or (b) (delay or procedural delay) is met. Accordingly, the court must refuse to allow the amendment of the claim if, in exercising its discretion and taking into...

2. UPC-Court of Appeal: Procedural decisions on change of claim

   A change of claim by introducing a subsidiary claim shall be rejected if this broadens the claim of the dispute compared to what was previously submitted and asserted and no explanation is provided as to why this could not have been asserted at an earlier stage with reasonable diligence (