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AI extraction · jid 3874 · granite4:small-h · 2026-05-24T11:18:36Z

Judgment

Structured metadata extracted by the canary pipeline, compared against the canonical CSV-sourced row.
4 validation flags Fields where the AI extraction disagrees with the canonical CSV row. Never auto-resolved.
Field AI extracted Canonical (CSV)
cause_number FSD 3 OF 2019 (IKJ) FSD 0003/2019 (IKJ)
neutral_citation [2021] CIGC (FSD) 3 empty
judgment_date 2021-01-11 2021-01-28
court Grand Court of the Cayman Islands CIGC (FSD)

Core metadata

FieldValue
Neutral citation [2021] CIGC (FSD) 3
Cause number FSD 0003/2019 (IKJ)
Cause year 2019
Cause division FSD
Cause judge initials IKJ
Court CIGC (FSD)
Court token (AKN) cigc-fsd
Judgment date 2021-01-28
Judge(s) Kawaley J
Parties In the Matter of Ascot Fund Ltd - Judgment
Subject Solvent liquidation of fund company-distribution rights of members-contractual right to pari passu distribution before and after commencement of winding-up-distribution of proceeds of pre-liquidation settlement of New York proceedings in a manner preferential to members with small shareholdings- whether adjustment required to post-liquidation distributions to take into account benefits conferred on small shareholders by settlement distribution- whether distribution of settlement proceeds constituted unlawful return of capital by the company- liability of members in restitution for receipt of unlawful distributions
Classification text_layer
Extraction method pymupdf

Akoma Ntoso identifiers

Work
/akn/ky/judgment/cigc-fsd/2021-01-11/0003-2019
Expression
/akn/ky/judgment/cigc-fsd/2021-01-11/0003-2019/eng@
Manifestation
/akn/ky/judgment/cigc-fsd/2021-01-11/0003-2019/eng@.pdf

Top-Level Concepts (TLC) referenced

Persons, organisations, and concepts the pipeline identified in the document. Dedup'd across the corpus by name + IRI.

Persons (7)

  • The Hon. Justice Kawaley
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  • Mr Tom Lowe QC
    /akn/ontology/canary/person/lawyer/ky.tom-lowe
  • Mr Marc Kish
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  • Ms Gemma Lardner
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  • Mr Tom Smith QC
    /akn/ontology/canary/person/lawyer/ky.tom-smith
  • Mr James Eldridge
    /akn/ontology/canary/person/lawyer/ky.james-eldridge
  • Mr Luke Armitage
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Organisations (5)

  • Grand Court of the Cayman Islands
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  • HFC Limited (the “Representative Party”/ “Contrarian”)
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  • The Joint Official Liquidators (the “JOLs”) of Ascot Fund Ltd. (the “Fund”)
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  • Ogier
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  • Maples and Calder
    /akn/ontology/canary/organization/firm/ky.maples-and-calder

Concepts (5)

  • company law
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  • liquidation
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  • distribution of assets
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  • Hearing
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  • Judgment delivered
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Roles (2)

  • Plaintiff
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  • Defendant
    /akn/ontology/canary/role/defendant

Lifecycle events

eIdDateTypeSource
ev_delivery 2021-01-11 generation #canary

Extraction provenance

Model
granite4:small-h
Pipeline version
0.2.0-akn
Extracted at
2026-05-24T11:18:36Z
Text method
pymupdf
Input tokens
10,779
Output tokens
639
Word count
6,148
Paragraph count
46
PDF pages
17
PDF MD5
57a2e55183ef82786e8c1886f81710f2
PDF filename
21-01-11-Ascot-Fund-Ltd.pdf
Run ID
2297
Run ok?
yes
Run duration (s)
46.5
Quality score
0.765
Re-run priority
medium
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