9 Jan 2009
JOHN ROBERT LEES AND AND ANOTHER v. DESMOND CHUNG SENG CHIONG AND OTHERS
- Citation
- JOHN ROBERT LEES AND AND ANOTHER v. DESMOND CHUNG SENG CHIONG AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1180/2003
On construction the Indemnity Agreement, including the second paragraph qualified by 'but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing', covers provisional liquidators' remuneration, costs and disbursements not recoverable from company assets; the past consideration defence fails because the indemnity covered continuing services and because there was antecedent oral promise; factual defences (improper charging, failure to recover assets, negligence, unbillable items) were rejected on the evidence and because the bill was taxed by the Companies Judge; application for fresh evidence was…