Read the full judgment text of HCMP 004183/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 11 March 1997.
1. On 12 December 1996, the plaintiff issued an originating summons seeking security for costs in arbitration proceedings against the defendant on the basis that the defendant is ordinarily resident out of the jurisdiction. This was preceded by correspondence between the solicitors for the parties in which the plaintiff's solicitors asked for security and the defendant declined to give it. The plaintiff's solicitors provided a draft skeleton bill of costs arriving at a total of about $707,000. T