ORB 17 September 1991. The plaintiff council, M, engaged the defendant architects, D, to design and supervise alteration and extension works on a college. Works were completed September 1984 and the final certificate was issued May 1986. In May 1988 M issued proceedings against D on the grounds that they had failed to supply information timeously, failed to warn of shortcomings in the design and appointed an inexperienced project architect, thereby delaying completion. M claimed additional preliminaries, loss caused by delay and disruption of the works and additional fluctuations. D requested further particulars which were issued in May 1991. D remained dissatisfied and requested more information and applied to strike out part of the claim on the grounds that paragraphs of the statement may prejudice, embarrass or delay the fair trial of the action and were an abuse of the process of the court. It was held that where a claim is made for extra costs incurred through delay as a result