In Brief
A contractor challenged a government agency's debarment order barring it from tenders for two years, claiming the penalty was beyond contractual scope. The agency subsequently issued fresh debarment orders following procedural reviews. The contractor sought to amend its civil suit to include these later orders. The High Court permitted the amendment, holding that all orders stemmed from a single continuous cause of action originating in the initial memo, not separate fresh claims. The Supreme Court upheld this, ruling that amendments introducing subsequent events in a continuous chain do not change the suit's character and no fresh Section 80 notice was required.
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