JUDGMENT

Salleh Abas FJ:

We have already allowed the appeal in this case at our sitting on 1 March 1982. Here are our reasons for allowing it. First the facts which are as follows.

Upon a petition presented by the Federal Government on 13 November 1978, a winding-up order was issued by the Johore Bharu High Court on 11 March 1979 ordering the first appellant to be wound up and the second appellant to be constituted provisional liquidator for the affairs of the first appellant.

On 13 April 1980 the first and second appellants issued a writ against the 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents (Johore Bharu Civil Suit No. 100/80) claiming that a series of transactions consisting of transfers, charges and sales in respect of the first appellant's rubber estate executed before and after the presentation of the petition for the winding order were all invalid. The writ asked for declarations that all these transactions were null and void and for payment of the proceeds of such transactions to be made to the second appellant. On the same date the appellants obtained, upon an ex parteapplication by summons-in-chambers from Anuar J, an interlocutory injunction restraining the first and second respondent