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\par APPLICANT
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\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13783978\charrsid13783978 Abhay Singh, A.K. Singh & Associates, Nausori
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\par This is an application for leave to appeal an interlocutory Order made by this Court.
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\par The ground for the application for leave to appeal is that the Court had erred in law in ordering the Applicant to pay $10,000.00 into Court as a condition of Stay of the execution of judgment entered against him in the Magistrates}{
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The payment into Court in this instance does not in any way prejudice the Appellant}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13783978 '}{\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13783978\charrsid13783978 s appeal.
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\par In all the circumstances of this case, the Court is of the view that the imposition of the payment of $10,000.00 into Court as a condition precedent to the Stay is proper.
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\par The application for leave and Stay is refused.
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\par Costs of $250.00 to be paid within 7 days to the Respondent.
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\par At Suva
\par 11 December 2002
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