A personal undertaking to the court by a director of a respondent company to guarantee repayment of a judgment sum if an appeal succeeds provides a very high degree of assurance sufficient to defeat an application for a stay of execution, rendering unnecessary any investigation of the company's financial position. The need for a close investigation of the respondent's financial position itself tends to demonstrate that the case is not exceptional.
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