JUDGMENT

(Oral)

Gopal Sri Ram JCA:

This is the judgment of the court.

There are three appeals before us this morning. They are Civil Appeal Nos. W-02-439-00, W-02-461-00 and W-02-462-00. They all arise from the same suit. They have to do with the decision of the learned judge in the court below refusing applications by all the appellants to cross-examine two deponents on their affidavits.

The substantive application before the High Court was for a post-judgment Mareva injunction. Judgment had already been obtained against the appellant in Civil Appeal No. W-02-439-00 in Singapore. That judgment was brought into our jurisdiction and registered in our High Court on 21 September 1998. The bare bones of the case is that the appellant in Civil Appeal No. W-02-461-00 (the wife of the appellant in W-02-439-00) and the appellants in W-02-462-00 (both limited companies) are the alter ego of the appellant in W-02-439-00. It was in the course of an application for a Mareva injunction made in that context that the appellants made their applications to cross-examine.

It is settled law that whether cross-examination of a deponent on an affidavit ought to be granted or refused is a matter within