2 Jun 1989
NICOLAS PAPPADIS AND ANOTHER v. CHAN SHING SHEUNG BARRY AND OTHERS
- Citation
- NICOLAS PAPPADIS AND ANOTHER v. CHAN SHING SHEUNG BARRY AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV11/1989
Appeal allowed and contempt findings set aside because (a) committal under O45 requires proper personal service or lawful dispensation which was not established here (and the judge had declined to dispense with service in one instance); (b) aiding and abetting contempt must be pleaded with particularity and proved — the statement pleaded only 'fail to cause' (O45) not knowing defiance, so findings of aiding and abetting could not be sustained; (c) the ex parte Mareva and discovery orders were overbroad and ambiguous and could be reasonably read so as not to require disclosure of trivial bank…