Chow v Chow (No 2) [2016] NSWSC 994

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Chow v Chow (No 2) [2016] NSWSC 994 Hearing dates: 15 July 2016 Decision date: 18 July 2016 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Robb J Decision: The parties are directed to bring in short minutes of order within 14 days to implement these reasons for judgment (having regard to par 35). Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – concerns directions to implement reasons for judgment on principal application –format of estate accounts in dispute – beneficiaries want trustees to reformat accounts from accounts prepared in accordance with current accounting standards to accounts prepared in a form suitable to be passed in probate – desirability of real issues in dispute being identified – whether beneficiaries could identify transactions of concern using accounts in current format – held court not satisfied that the annual financial statements are inadequate for the purpose of beneficiaries identifying real issues in dispute– form of short minutes of order proposed – no issue of principle Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Chow v Chow [2016] NSWSC 908 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Selwyn Sai-Him Chow (first plaintiff) Jacqueline Wai Ying Chow (second plaintiff) Evan Sai-Yiu Chow (third plaintiff) Chow Kwok Chi (fourth plaintiff)

Chow Kwork Ching (as executor of the estate of Chow Cho Poon & co-trustee of the testamentary trust of the residuary estate of Chow Cho Poon) (first defendant) Chan Pik Yun Peggy Chow (as co-trustee of the testamentary trust of the residuary estate of Chow Cho Poon) (second defendant) Representation: Counsel: PH Blackburn-Hart SC/DM Tucker M Walton SC/MW Sneddon (defendants)