The applicant’s suit against the Respondents was based on defamation arising from allegations that the 1st Respondent did unlawfully order the Police to hold him in confinement for three hours. In their joint written statement of defence, the Respondents raised a preliminary objection against the suit on grounds that the suit was bad for contravening sections 6(2) (3) and 10(2) of the Government Proceedings Act, 2010 (Act No. 3/2010), that the plaintiff has no cause of action against the defendants and that the claim is frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of court process. On 18.10.2012 the Regional Court delivered its ruling dismissing all the grounds raised on the preliminary objection with the exception of the 1st ground which was to the effect that under section 6(3) of the Government Act, 2010, the 1st defendant i.e. the Registrar of the High Court has been wrongly joined to the suit and therefore that he be struck out from the suit. The trial court therefore made an order that the plaint be amended to that effect.