Mr. Navin Khilnani vs Mashreq Bank Psc. on 25 May, 2007
10. Learned Counsel for the appellant questioned the approach of the learned Single Judge on the ground that simply because the Court had passed the detailed order rejecting the application for leave to defend filed by the defendant, it would not be branded a judgment on the merits of the case. His submission was that such a judgment was still under summary procedure and without recording the evidence. He argued that the judgment cited by the appellant were not properly appreciated and discussed in right perspective by the learned Single Judge. He also cited the judgments of the Supreme Court in the case of International Woollen Mills v. Standard Wool (U.K.) Ltd. . Learned Counsel for the decree holder maintained that since the defense of the judgment debtor as contained in application for leave to defend was duly considered; the Court also took in consideration various documents filed by the decree holder as well as the affidavits; the evidence on record was taken into consideration and analyzed, such a judgment would be a judgment on the merits of the case.