Read the full judgment text of CACV 000208/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 17 November 1997.
1. Sears J. is currently trying a massive action. The principal Defendant is D1. He was declared bankrupt in Denmark in 1989. The Plaintiffs are the trustees of D1's estate, and the receivers of his property in Hong Kong. They contend that D1's assets include assets nominally owned by some of the other Defendants, and that attempts have been made by all the Defendants to conceal D1's true assets from the Plaintiffs. In the course of the trial, Sears J. has had to make a number of interlocutory o