30 Apr 2018
LI XIAO YI AND ANOTHER v. ALAN CHUNG WAH TANG and HOU CHUNG MAN (JOINT AND SEVERAL TRUSTEES OF THE PROPERTY OF THE BANKRUPT)
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFI 939
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCB345/2001
Both discovery summonses were dismissed because the applicants lacked a legitimate interest or standing to obtain discovery or to impugn the administration of the bankrupt estate; being relatives and not creditors they are strangers to the estate and cannot use compulsory discovery to probe funding arrangements despite s42 applying broadly.