Read the full judgment text of HCA 009637/1983 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. It has always been the law of Hong Kong that a money judgment could be enforced by imprisonment of the judgment debtor. Up to 1967, it was done by sealing and issuing a writ of execution in a form cobbled together from the writs of fieri facias, attachment and capias ad satisfaciendum. It appears to have issued without leave and certainly without order of the court. Therefore, the judgment debtor was imprisoned as a result of secret, administrative process for good reason or bad or for no rea