Read the full judgment text of HCMP 5268/2000 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 January 2001.
1. This is an application by the Defendant, Messrs Richard Tai & Co., a firm of solicitors, for interpleader relief under Order 17 rule 3 of the Rules of the High Court by a summons taken out in the action on 17 November 2000. The Defendant seeks an order that it be allowed to pay into court the sum of HK$379,648.82 held by the Defendant as stakeholder, that all further proceedings herein by the Plaintiff against the Defendant be stayed, and that an issue is to be stated and tried as between the