Section 17Part 0 —
Counterclaims and third parties
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The Court shall have power, subject to the procedural requirements of any other law or any Rules, to grant to any defendant, in respect of any legal or equitable estate, right or title claimed or asserted by that defendant, all such relief against any plaintiff as such defendant shall have properly claimed by that defendant's pleading and as the Court might have granted in an action instituted by the same defendant against the same plaintiff. The Court may also grant all such relief relating to or connected with the original subject of the cause or matter and in like manner claimed against any other person, whether or not already a party to the same cause or matter, who shall have been duly served with notice in writing of such claim pursuant to any Rules or order of the Court, as might properly have been granted against such person if that person had been made a defendant to an action duly instituted by the same defendant for the like purpose. Any person served with any such notice shall thenceforth be deemed to be party to such cause or matter with the same right in respect of that person's defence against such claim as if that person had been served in the ordinary way by such defendant.