Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 25 September 2007.
1. The application before me is an unusual one. The applicants seek an order that this court should direct the Secretary for Justice to use his best endeavours to obtain an undertaking from the judicial and/or prosecuting authorities of Italy to embargo certain banking documents which were originally seized in Hong Kong and were subsequently transferred to Italy where they are now being held, I understand, in support of criminal proceedings instituted in that country.