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1. I propose to vary the order nisi which I made as to costs in the judgment which I handed down on 4th June. The Defendant succeeded in the action on the basis of a short issue of construction. However, the Plaintiffs succeeded on all the other contested issues which were necessary for me to decide and to which most of the evidence related, namely whether Mr. Ng's letter was intended to create contractual obligations and was therefore more than a mere letter of comfort, and whether the sums in