Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 29 April 1999.
1. The question that was asked of this Court is one of entitlement to interplead. Interpleader is certainly not a novel topic. The nature of the right to interplead was re-affirmed as early as 1936 by Lord Greene, then sitting in the English Court of Appeal. That aside, the question of interpleader in this case simply arose from unusual dealings of corporations linked to convoluted documentation.