With one or two adjustments, a 1997 High Court judgment starts like it could be the beginning of a film. “This case arises out of circumstances which commenced more than a quarter of a century ago. It has its origin in business dealings undertaken in the hopes of arriving at a very large crock of gold, which in the end of the day turned into a bottomless pit of debt and misery for those who most avidly sought the crock of gold.” The subject of this epic dispute? The fallout from the collapse of Bula Mines, founded in 1971 to…

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