(53) The court, through the judgment of Gopal Sri Ram JCA, found, at p 611, that:

It is clear from the authorities that the substantive appeal, based

upon a single point of interpretation, lacks all merit and is doomed to

failure.

(54) On ‘special circumstances’, the learned judge says at p 605:

At one time it was thought that an appellant had to demonstrate that

there were special circumstances warranting a stay of proceedings or of

execution. This was founded on the notion that a successful litigant

ought not to be deprived of the fruits of his litigation. See the case

of The Annot Lyle (1886) 11 PD 114. The authority constantly relied

upon in support of the proposition that special circumstances ought to

be demonstrated before a stay of execution may be granted is the

judgment of Brown J in Serangoon Garden Estate Ltd v Ang Keng

[1953] MLJ 116. For my part, having considered the more recent

authorities on the subject, I have come to the conclusion that that

decision is bad law, and ought no longer to be followed by this court.

(55) The learned judge then quotes from the judgment of Chan Sek Keong