TO KAN CHI (陶根池)TO FUK TIM (陶福添)TO KAM CHAU (陶鑑籌)as managers of theTO KA YI T'SO (陶嘉儀祖) v TO CHEONG LAM (陶昌林)TO SIU LAM (陶兆林)TO MEI LUN (陶美粦)TO MAN HING (陶萬興)andTO MUK TAI (陶木泰)(as representatives of the To Clan)

Read the full judgment text of HCMP 6907/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 15 April 1999.

1. On 12 January 1999, Mortimer V-P, sitting as a single judge of this court, reversed an order made below by Yam, J. on 19 December 1998 to the extent that that order, in effect, released to the plaintiffs in the action before the judge a sum of $20m, part of some $300m standing in court to the credit of the action. As to the balance of the money, the judge had stayed payment out of that balance to the plaintiffs pending an appeal by the unsuccessful defendant the Secretary for Justice against