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1. When handing down judgment we substituted for the order as to costs made by the Court of Appeal an order nisi leaving the parties to bear their own costs here and in the courts below. The petitioners, who are the administrators pendente lite of the late Mr TH Wang’s estate, ask us to vary the order nisi so as to include a direction that the administrators’ own costs here and in the courts below be paid out of Mr Wang’s estate and be taxed on a trustee basis. This variation is opposed by the