Read the full judgment text of HCCW 88/2008 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 March 2012.
1. I have before me a summons issued on 20 January 2012 by the liquidators of the company for the court’s sanction of their engagement of what is referred to in the summons as a PRC legal consultant who will act as agent in litigation in the mainland relating to the share capital of a company called, in English, Dongguan Po Yuen (To’s) Machine Factory Limited. The summons also seeks the approval of what is, in practice, a funding arrangement. The funding arrangement involves the legal consultant