[Court Enclosure No 41 (Committal Proceedings)]

A. Introduction

[1] The plaintiffs (Applicants) obtained leave of this Court to file this application (encl 41) to commit the first defendant (Respondent) for contempt of Court regarding the Respondent's breach of an ex parte Court order (Ex Parte Order). The Ex Parte Order, among others, compelled the Respondent to deliver to the Applicants' supervising solicitors any laptop, notebook, iPad, digital and optical storage devices (Electronic Devices) in the Respondent's possession and/or control.

[2] Enclosure 41 concerns the following issues:

(1) whether the Applicants are required under O 45 r 7(2)(a) of the Rules of 2012 (RC) to serve personally an original copy of the sealed Ex Parte Order on the Respondent when a copy of the sealed Ex Parte Order has been attached to an email sent by the Applicants' solicitors to the Respondent. This question concerns the construction of O 45 r 7(2)(a), 7(6)(b) and O 62 r 3 RC;

(2) did the Respondent breach the Ex Parte Order? In