Where an appellant's impecuniosity is inextricably tied to the respondent's claim in related proceedings concerning the very assets at issue, this reduces the weight of impecuniosity as a factor favouring security for costs. An appeal raising a threshold question of law may be permitted to proceed unconditioned by security requirements even where there is a real risk that a costs order would not be satisfied.
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