16 Feb 2022
KEEMATI LIMITED v MR CIVIL LIMITED [2022] NZHC 195
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 195
- Court
- High Court
The court varied the consent freezing order to permit the liquidator to continue liquidation and found MR Civil had breached the freezing order by reducing assets below the order sum, but declined to make contempt orders against QNZ or Mr Qiu because the freezing order did not clearly and unambiguously bind them and the criminal standard of proof for contempt was not met; other urgent relief (restraint of QNZ liquidation, IRD referral, new $2m freezing order/security, imprisonment or sequestration of QNZ/Mr Qiu) was refused as either premature, unsupported by evidence, or without juridical ba…