7 Nov 2006
RE B.F. CONSTRUCTION CO LTD
- Citation
- RE B.F. CONSTRUCTION CO LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCW691/2004
Where no winding-up order was made and provisional liquidators have been discharged and management re-vested in directors, the companies whose assets will fund any fees have an apparent interest and must ordinarily be allowed to be heard; the Procedural Guide is only guidance and does not mandate ex parte taxation; accordingly the Registrar's decision that taxation be inter partes was upheld; interim payments may be ordered in the court's discretion (MG and MP paid as ordered; BF interim reduced to 50%); the Registrar's order making provisional liquidators personally liable for the costs of t…