23 Oct 2008
THE JOINT & SEVERAL LIQUIDATORS OF KONG WAH HOLDINGS LTD (in Liquidation) v. THE GRANDE HOLDINGS LTD AND OTHERS
- Citation
- THE JOINT & SEVERAL LIQUIDATORS OF KONG WAH HOLDINGS LTD (in Liquidation) v. THE GRANDE HOLDINGS LTD AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCW50/2000
The court held the liquidators had not established legal professional privilege over the transcripts (no legal advice privilege; no factual basis for litigation privilege), and that disclosure of the applicants' own transcripts in these proceedings is not inconsistent with the purposes of s.221 and r.62. Exercising its discretion in the exceptional circumstances (complexity, age of events, number of issues), the court permitted limited disclosure to the applicants, their legal advisers and specified identified persons and related group defendants, subject to a solicitor's letter undertaking t…