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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

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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.
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Akoma Ntoso identifiers

Work
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Manifestation
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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)

  • The Hon. Justice Parker
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  • GEORGE ALLEN COWAN
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  • DAVID CHARLES RUSSELL
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  • ADAM BERNHARD BALLIN
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  • 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
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Organisations (6)

  • Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
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  • GEORGE ALLEN COWAN, ON BEHALF OF EQUIS SPECIAL L.P. (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS EQUIS ASIA FUND SPECIAL L.P.)
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  • EQUIS SPECIAL L.P. (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS EQUIS ASIA FUND SPECIAL L.P.), ACTING BY ITS GENERAL PARTNER EQUIS SPECIAL GP
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  • EQUIS SPECIAL GP (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS EQUIS ASIA FUND SPECIAL GP), IN ITS CAPACITY AS GENERAL PARTNER OF EQUIS SPECIAL L.P.
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  • Walkers
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  • Maples
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Concepts (5)

  • amendment of pleadings
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  • security for costs
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  • foreign plaintiff non-discrimination rule
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  • Hearing
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  • Judgment delivered
    /akn/ontology/canary/concept/step/delivery

Roles (2)

  • Plaintiff
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  • Defendant
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Lifecycle events

eIdDateTypeSource
ev_delivery 2024-05-22 generation #canary

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PDF pages
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PDF MD5
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PDF filename
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Run ID
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Run ok?
yes
Run duration (s)
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Quality score
0.804
Re-run priority
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