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Hong Kong Case Law

Payments to employees
  • 9 Jan 2006

    RE SAITON ENGINEERING LTD ("SAITON")

    Citation
    RE SAITON ENGINEERING LTD ("SAITON")
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCCW819/2005

    A limited validation order was appropriate because the proposed payments were confined to ordinary-course liabilities related to two near-completion projects, were likely to preserve and enhance realisations for creditors, facilitiate a commercially credible restructuring proposal (supported by some major creditors and the Official Receiver), and included monitoring safeguards; accordingly validation orders were made in the terms applied for except one employee's salary which was deferred pending further affirmation.