5 Feb 1999
THE SUMITOMO BANK LTD. v. XIN HUA ESTATE LTD. AND OTHERS
- Citation
- THE SUMITOMO BANK LTD. v. XIN HUA ESTATE LTD. AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCL256/1998
The court refused to determine the anti-suit application at that stage and adjourned the application sine die with liberty to restore because comity and the exceptional nature of anti-suit injunctions required that the Guangdong Court s reserved decision on its own jurisdiction not be pre-empted; the plaintiff may return if the foreign court declines relief or if undue delay causes prejudice, with full particulars of the foreign proceedings to be supplied on any further application.