Read the full judgment text of HCA 001973/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 4 December 2007 before Saunders J.
Civil procedure – Mareva Injunction – disclosure of assets – affidavit – approximate amounts – committal application – contempt – de minimis – costs – indemnity basis – The 4th Defendant provided an affidavit from remand giving approximate amounts in his bank account due to lack of documents – Plaintiffs sought committal for failure to state exact amounts – Held: No contempt – any inaccuracy was de minimis and adequately explained – application unnecessary and expensive – Plaintiffs ordered to pay indemnity costs
Legal issues: Whether failure to provide exact amounts in disclosure affidavit constitutes contempt
Outcome: Application for committal dismissed against the 4th Defendant.
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