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1. This is an appeal from an order made in matrimonial proceedings. The order related to a flat in Chai Wan, which had been the parties' matrimonial home. The judge ordered that the flat be sold. This appeal relates only to the order which the judge made relating to the net proceeds of sale. He ordered that, after the sums secured by a mortgage on the flat had been repaid and the costs of the sale had been deducted, the wife should be paid the sum of $1m., and the balance of the net proceeds of