Read the full judgment text of HCA 011077/1994 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 6 May 2002.
1. This has not been an easy case to decide. This is an application by the defendants bank for security for costs in the sum of some $3.8 million to cover the costs, both in terms of the past as well as for the trial that is now estimated to last 15 days. Mr Fok tells me that in fact it may last longer than 15 days, possibly 20 days. Mr Fok appears with junior counsel, Mr Fung; on the other side, there is Mr Shum with another junior and with intimation that Mr Martin Lee, senior counsel, has bee