A removed executor with no financial interest in the estate who seeks a stay pending appeal faces a heavy burden to demonstrate special or exceptional circumstances, particularly where the sole beneficiary's representative opposes the stay and the estate has suffered inordinate delay in administration. An undertaking by the new administrator not to take the impugned step without court sanction may negate the contention that the appeal would be rendered nugatory.
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