JUDGMENT

I. APPEALS

Before me are two appeals by the judgment debtor (JD) against two decisions of the learned registrar, viz. :

1. dismissing the application to set aside the bankruptcy notice dated 4 September 2001 whereby the judgment creditor (JC) sought to recover RM19,645, including

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allocatur amounting to RM1,460 being costs taxed on 16 April 1998 ("taxed bill of costs") in Seremban High Court Civil Suit No. 22-103-1995 ("the said suit"); and

2. allowing the JC's petition for receiving and adjudication orders against the JD.

II. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

This is neither complex nor perplexing.

On 30 April 1997, the High Court in Seremban gave judgment with costs ("the said judgment") in the said suit against the JD. All subsequent applications by the JD in encl.(55) and (84) to set aside the said judgment had been dismissed. The JD's appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed on 28 August 2002. Leave to appeal to the Federal Court has been refused. There can

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be no doubt whatsoever that the said judgment is final and conclusive.

The taxed bill of costs was the subject matter of the registrar's said decisions and now these two appeals before me.

III. JP'S SUBMISSION

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