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Claim No: CFI 009/2023

IN THE DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE COURTS

IN THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

BETWEEN

(1) BANK SARASIN-ALPEN (ME) LIMITED (in liquidation)
(2) GEORGINA MARIE EASON
(in her capacity as Official Liquidator of Bank Sarasin-Alpen (ME) Limited)

Claimants

and

(1) MR ELIE VIVIEN SASSOON
(2) MR STEPHANE EMILE ASTRUC
(3) MR EDMOND CARTON
(4) BANK J SAFRA SARASIN LIMITED
(5) J SAFRA SARASIN (MIDDLE EAST) LIMITED (previously known as BANK J.
SAFRA SARASIN ASSET MANAGEMENT (MIDDLE EAST) LTD)

Defendants

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AMENDED CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER OF JUSTICE SIR JEREMY COOKE

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UPON the Order with Reasons of Justice Sir Jeremy Cooke dated 30 April 2024 (the “April Order”)

UPON the Case Management Order of Justice Sir Jeremy Cooke dated 20 June 2024 (the “First CMC Order”)

AND UPON reviewing the Court file

AND UPON reading the Case Management Conference Bundle

AND UPON hearing Counsel for the Claimants and Counsel for the Defendants at the second Case Management Conference held before Justice Sir Jeremy Cooke on 23 September 2024 (the “Second CMC”)

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT:

Disclosure

1. Paragraph 11 of the First CMC Order is varied to read: “Each of the parties shall provide disclosure in accordance with paragraph 11 of the April Order by 4pm on 31 December 2024”.

Custodians

2. The list of the Claimants’ custodians of documents to be searched in Appendix 1 to this Order is approved.

3. The list of the Defendants’ custodians of documents to be searched in Appendix 2 to this Order is approved.

4. The Fifth Defendant shall identify any of its Relationship Managers (“RMs”) previously employed by the Bank of Singapore who in 2014 or 2015 serviced a client of the First Claimant and provide a list of such RMs to the Claimants by 4pm on 27 September 2024. The RMs on the list shall form part of the Defendants’ list of custodians of documents to be searched.

Search terms and date ranges

5. The Defendants shall provide a response to the Claimants in respect of their proposed English language keyword search terms and date ranges by 6pm on 7 October 2024.

6. The parties shall meet to discuss the draft list of proposed keywords and date ranges on a date to be agreed in the week beginning 14 October 2024.

7. Any areas of dispute remaining are to be determined at a hearing held remotely to be listed on 6 November 2024 with a provisional time estimate of half a day.

Further Case Management Conferences

8. Further Case Management Conferences shall take remotely and be listed on the following dates with a time estimate of a day:

9. The parties shall seek to agree the agenda for each Case Management Conference (and, if required, the hearing referred to in paragraph 7 above) by a date which is seven days before the hearing date.

Costs

10. Costs of the Second CMC shall be costs in the case.

Issued by:
Delvin Sumo
Assistant Registrar
Date of issue: 1 October 2024
Date of re-issue: 2 October 2024
At: 9am

APPENDIX 1

1. Afzal Azmi (Mohammed)

2. Ajay Sharma

3. Anurag Malhotra

4. Arjun Mittal

5. ARM Dubai (a general Relationship Manager email address)

6. Atul Rao

7. Binu Nair

8. Christopher Kumpas

9. Edmond Carton

10. Ganesh Subramany

11. Hanna Nadar

12. Harish Tergaonkar

13. Kamal Manglani

14. Kavit Palicha

15. Kay Gomes

16. Kishore Narayanan

17. Manoj Kapur

18. Meenal Mahajan

19. Melanie Alvite

20. Pankaj Ganjoo

21. Payal Dalal

22. Prabhakar Limaye

23. Rajiv Philip

24. Richard George

25. Rohit Walia

26. Sameena Ahmad

27. Sheela Shankar

28. Sudarshan Malpani

29. T. M. Lakshman

30. Vassilis Makkas

31. Vivek Ramachandran

32. Zubin Muriya

APPENDIX 2

Fourth Defendant

1. Alice Brander

2. Bernhard Eisele

3. Dagmar G. Wohrl

4. Daniel Graf

5. Daniel Wainberg

6. Edmond Carton

7. Elie Sassoon

8. Enid Yip

9. Eric Sarasin

10. Gian-Paolo Corsetti

11. Ilan Hayim

12. Jacob J. Safra

13. Jan Poser

14. Joseph Y. Safra

15. Kristina Myreen

16. Marcelo Szerman

17. Maria Genehr

18. Markus Affolter

19. Michele Hiltmann

20. Patrick Gribi

21. Peter Fischer

22. Philippe Dupont

23. Pierre-Alain Bracher

24. Rina Maraachli

25. Roy Clinton

26. Sergio Penchas

27. Sipko N. Schat

28. Solomon Sebban

29. Stephane Astruc

30. Thomas Mueller

31. Y. N. Nagendra

Fifth Defendant

1. Ajay Sharma

2. Anurag Malhotra

3. Arjun Mittal

4. Ashwin Tidke

5. Bernhard Eisele

6. Hanna Nadar

7. Harish Tergaonkar

8. James Cunningham

9. Jonathan Swann

10. Kamal Manglani

11. Kavit Palicha

12. Kay Gomes

13. Kishore Narayanan

14. Manoj Kapur

15. Melanie Alvite

16. Pankaj Ganjoo

17. Payal Dalal

18. Pranav Dave

19. Rajiv Philip

20. Richard George

21. Sudarshan Malpani

22. Varun Bukshi

23. Vassilis Makkas