Read the full judgment text of HCCL 000207/1999 on BabelCite. This HCCL judgment was delivered on 20 March 2000.
1. There is before the court one of the many stay applications with which this court is regularly seized. It is taken out by the defendant, the Guangdong Development Bank, by summons dated 22 December 1999, and it prays that all further proceedings in this action be stayed on the ground that Hong Kong is not the forum conveniens for the subject matter of the claim, relief or remedy sought by the plaintiff against the defendant in this action, and that the appropriate forum for the trial of the a