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Any leave from the hospital for Mr Carrim was authorized strictly for specific purposes, with passes subject to strict conditions including searches and return at specific times, including a 4-hour excursion on 14 July from 1:30pm to 5pm.

“any leave from the hospital would be authorized for specific purposes... passes that were subject to strict conditions, including searches...including on the return of the 14 July excursion, which was said to have been a four hour chaperoned excursion that took place between 1:30 in the afternoon and 5 p.m. in the afternoon”

Mr Carrim was unable to appear due to hospital admission on 7 June but had no valid excuse for not responding to Regulation 10.6 notices regarding his companies' auditors and financial statements.

“He is not here today and we received a doctor's note yesterday that refers to his admission to hospital on the 7th of June... We are still waiting for Mr Carrim to tell us, for example, who the auditors of his companies are... there is nothing in the doctor's note that suggests his health conditions are of such an order that he has been unable to do that for two months... we are still waiting for Mr Carrim to furnish audited or even unaudited financial statements for three of his companies, Ziggy, Tasmica and Tameez...”

It is regrettable that they are learning about a formal postponement application concerning Mr Carrim's absence, due to him being in hospital, in an open proceeding rather than earlier.

“It is unfortunate we are learning about this in an open proceeding ... given that the client is not here because he is presently in the hospital”