The East African Court of Justice Rules of Procedure 2013 (2) Where a party is served with an amended pleading, after it has filed its answer it may, without leave of the Court, amend its own answer to the pleading which is being amended, and shall lodge it in the registry within fourteen (14) days after being so served. Amendment with leave 50. (1) The Court may, at any stage of the proceedings, allow any party to amend its pleadings in such manner as it may direct and on such terms as to costs or otherwise as may be just. (2) The Court may, in the following circumstances, grant such leave to amend notwithstanding that any relevant period of limitation current at the date of instituting the case has expired, if it thinks it is just so to do: (a) where the amendment is to correct the name of a party even if it has the effect of substituting a new party, if the Court is satisfied that the mistake sought to be corrected was a genuine mistake; (b) where the amendment is to alter the capacity in which the party is or is made party to the proceedings, if the altered capacity is one which that party could have been or been made party at the institution of the proceedings; (c) where the amendment adds or substitutes a new cause of action if the new cause of action arises out of the same facts or substantially the same facts as a cause of action in respect of which relief has already been claimed by the party seeking leave in the same case. (3) Whenever a formal application is made to the Court for leave to amend any pleading, the amendment for which leave is sought shall be set out in writing, lodged with the Registrar and served on the opposite party before the hearing of the application. 32