[1] There are nineteen (19) appeals before this Court. The subject matter of the majority of these appeals relate to the remuneration as well as the discharge and release of a liquidator, one Yew Fooi, arising subsequent to his removal as the liquidator of five companies. The application for his removal was allowed by the High Court and upheld by the Court of Appeal.

[2] As such, these appeals relate to orders made by the High Court in relation to interim payments drawn and retained by the liquidator himself as fees for work done during the tenure of his appointment, as well as his subsequent release and discharge. Two of the appeals relate to an examination of the sale of businesses of the relevant companies by the liquidator.

Salient Background Facts

[3] These appeals arise as a consequence of a family shareholders' dispute between the majority contributories of the five companies ('majority') and the minority contributories of these companies ('minority'). They are all relate