Read the full judgment text of CACV 000040/1994 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 27 July 1994.
1. Given the narrow ambit within which this appeal is proposed, on my part, to be disposed of, it is not necessary to recite the facts in detail. The plaintiff sought and obtained a Letter of Request from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, at Chicago for the production of various documents. Master Bokhary granted an ex parte order for an authorised officer of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited to attend and give evidence