15 Jul 2003
DEACONS (a firm) v. WHITE & CASE LTD LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP AND OTHERS
- Citation
- DEACONS (a firm) v. WHITE & CASE LTD LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP2591/2003
Applications for extension of time to appeal were refused and the appeal was dismissed because the applicants were significantly delayed given the speedy-trial timetable and because the asserted ground — that prior interlocutory decisions were automatically void due to the judge's later recusal — failed on its merits: the judge's recusal rested on a post hoc recognition that a person was an equity partner rather than a salaried employee, and there was no basis to treat the earlier relevance and strike-out decisions as tainted by bias; consequently the interlocutory orders stand and no leave t…