2 Feb 1982
EAST SEAS SHIPPING CORPORATION AND ANOTHER v. LIU CHONG HING BANK LTD AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- EAST SEAS SHIPPING CORPORATION AND ANOTHER v. LIU CHONG HING BANK LTD AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1408/1980
The judge held that particulars should be ordered where allegations amount to material facts necessary to define the case (not mere evidential detail) and where a defensive traverse, though negative in form, is pregnant with an affirmative case; applying these principles the Registrar's orders to require undisputed particulars and to make an unless order were not shown to be wrong and most of the contested requests for particulars were either properly ordered (where central to alleged fraud and control) or properly refused (where they sought evidential detail); plaintiffs succeeded on only on…