AI extraction · jid 2241 · granite4:small-h
· 2026-05-24T11:17:28Z
Cowan v Equis - Ruling
Structured metadata extracted by the canary pipeline, compared against the canonical CSV-sourced row.
3 validation flags
Fields where the AI extraction disagrees with the canonical CSV row. Never auto-resolved.
| Field | AI extracted | Canonical (CSV) |
|---|---|---|
cause_number |
FSD 22 OF 2018 (RPJ) | FSD 0022 OF 2018 (RPJ) |
neutral_citation |
[2025] CIGC (FSD) 66 | empty |
court |
Grand Court of the Cayman Islands | Grand Court |
Core metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Cause number | FSD 0022 OF 2018 (RPJ) |
| Cause year | 2018 |
| Cause division | FSD |
| Cause judge initials | RPJ |
| Court | Grand Court |
| Court token (AKN) | cigc-fsd |
| Judgment date | 2024-May-22 |
| Subject | Overriding Objective - duties on litigants and attorneys to conduct litigation reasonably and economically to assist Court -GCR Order 20 -permission to amend pleadings -purpose of rule 12- agreement in writing- correspondence between attorneys sufficient - late service of evidence and strike out - approach in relation to applications to amend - no mini trials - abuse of process - security for costs - foreign plaintiff non-discrimination rule - Order 23 rule 1 (a) - disclosure application in relation to pure funder - discretion. |
| Classification | text_layer |
| Extraction method | pymupdf |
Akoma Ntoso identifiers
- Work
/akn/ky/judgment/cigc-fsd/2024-05-22/0022-2018- Expression
/akn/ky/judgment/cigc-fsd/2024-05-22/0022-2018/eng@- Manifestation
/akn/ky/judgment/cigc-fsd/2024-05-22/0022-2018/eng@.pdf
Top-Level Concepts (TLC) referenced
Persons, organisations, and concepts the pipeline identified in the document. Dedup'd across the corpus by name + IRI.
Persons (10)
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The Hon. Justice Parker
/akn/ontology/canary/person/judge/ky.parker -
GEORGE ALLEN COWAN
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DAVID CHARLES RUSSELL
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ADAM BERNHARD BALLIN
/akn/ontology/canary/person/party-natural/ky.adam-bernhard-ballin -
LANCE MICHAEL COMES
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JOSEPH THOMAS CARMODY
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RAJPAL SINGH CHAUDHARY
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TONY GIBSON
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Mr Thomas Grant KC
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Ms Anneliese Day KC
/akn/ontology/canary/person/lawyer/ky.anneliese-day
Organisations (6)
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Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
/akn/ontology/canary/organization/court/ky.grand-court-of-the-cayman-islands -
GEORGE ALLEN COWAN, ON BEHALF OF EQUIS SPECIAL L.P. (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS EQUIS ASIA FUND SPECIAL L.P.)
/akn/ontology/canary/organization/party-corporate/ky.george-allen-cowan-on-behalf-of-equis-special-l-p -
EQUIS SPECIAL L.P. (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS EQUIS ASIA FUND SPECIAL L.P.), ACTING BY ITS GENERAL PARTNER EQUIS SPECIAL GP
/akn/ontology/canary/organization/party-corporate/ky.equis-special-l-p-acting-by-its-general-partner-equis-special-gp -
EQUIS SPECIAL GP (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS EQUIS ASIA FUND SPECIAL GP), IN ITS CAPACITY AS GENERAL PARTNER OF EQUIS SPECIAL L.P.
/akn/ontology/canary/organization/party-corporate/ky.equis-special-gp-in-its-capacity-as-general-partner-of-equis-special-l-p -
Walkers
/akn/ontology/canary/organization/firm/ky.walkers -
Maples
/akn/ontology/canary/organization/firm/ky.maples
Concepts (5)
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amendment of pleadings
/akn/ontology/canary/concept/area-of-law/amendment-of-pleadings -
security for costs
/akn/ontology/canary/concept/area-of-law/security-for-costs -
foreign plaintiff non-discrimination rule
/akn/ontology/canary/concept/area-of-law/foreign-plaintiff-non-discrimination-rule -
Hearing
/akn/ontology/canary/concept/step/hearing -
Judgment delivered
/akn/ontology/canary/concept/step/delivery
Roles (2)
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Plaintiff
/akn/ontology/canary/role/plaintiff -
Defendant
/akn/ontology/canary/role/defendant
Lifecycle events
| eId | Date | Type | Source |
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ev_delivery |
2024-05-22 | generation | #canary |
Extraction provenance
- Model
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- Pipeline version
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- Extracted at
- 2026-05-24T11:17:28Z
- Text method
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- Input tokens
- 13,400
- Output tokens
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- Word count
- 25,441
- Paragraph count
- 164
- PDF pages
- 34
- PDF MD5
- 6da3c505701fa95d6d926e25ed94a64e
- PDF filename
- 20GKFH0ZCBXG1H9465CE68F933E6302C8405C36DBA963B67CD81.pdf
- Run ID
- 2295
- Run ok?
- yes
- Run duration (s)
- 57.6
- Quality score
- 0.804
- Re-run priority
- medium
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