Read the full judgment text of HCMP 2891/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 September 2001.
1. The starting point for this kind of application is that an appeal should not operate as a stay of execution, see Order 59 rule 31A. The court does not make a practice of depriving a successful litigant from the fruits of his litigation and locking up funds to which prima facie he is entitled pending an appeal (see The Annot Lyle (1886) 11 PD 114, C.A.).