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Surety's guarantee
  • 16 Mar 1989

    BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS v. R.C. CHEN (ALSO KNOW AS REN CHING CHEN) AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS v. R.C. CHEN (ALSO KNOW AS REN CHING CHEN) AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCAP659/1983

    The appeal was allowed and the Probate Registrar's requirement for a Surety's Guarantee was waived because the applicants demonstrated that the trust properties are adequately protected: vesting assents had been executed for beneficiary properties; Tong properties are subject to statutory managerial controls and require multiple managers and District Officer involvement preventing unilateral disposal; and certain properties are held by the applicants as personal representatives of another deceased (Tang Lim Ming), making additional court security unnecessary. Therefore no protective surety wa…