COUNSEL & SOLICITOR:
For the defendant – Paul Ngooi Shin Han; M/s Lim Kian Leong & Co
HIGH COURT
LEGAL PROFESSION: Solicitors – Stakeholders – Duties of a stakeholder – Whether all three conditions fulfilled when 3rd defendant released the documents to 1st defendant – Whether 3rd defendant breached their undertaking and stakeholder duties under the Agreement in respect of the release of documents to 1st defendant – Whether 3rd defendant remained in a neutral position when he acted as a stakeholder – 3rd defendant aware of contractual dispute between plaintiffs and 1st defendant – Whether 3rd defendant should have taken an interpleader proceeding instead of forming a view on the dispute in favour of 1st defendant