A spokesman for the judiciary said the department would try to provide more copies of the judgment for the media to collect but there would not be any special arrangements.

While solicitor Keith Ho Man-kei, for Wang's Chinachem Charitable Foundation, will attend court to collect the judgment this morning, his client is expected to meet the media later today.

Dr Kung Yan-sum, Wang's younger brother, who is in his 70s, closed his clinic in Tsing Lung Tau at Christmas, allowing him to become more involved in the business of the Chinachem Group and its foundation.

Chan will not appear in court today.

He replied to media questions through his public relations manager last night, saying that he did not feel particularly nervous about the judgment and would respect the court's decision.

Chan, who has said he was Wang's lover from 1992 until she died in 2007, said Wang had left him the entire Chinachem empire in a will dated October 16, 2006. He said this was her deliberate and conscious decision to give him everything out of love.

But Wang's foundation, controlled by her siblings, contested the claim by bringing in a handwriting expert who said the signatures of Wang and two witnesses were forged.

The court was asked to determine, on the balance of probability, if the allegation of forgery had been proved, while Chan's lawyers countered that the foundation had failed to back such a serious allegation with 'sufficiently cogent' evidence.

Chan's own handwriting expert argued that the alleged forgery was far too complex to accomplish.

The foundation also said the alleged will was just part of fung shui procedures to extend the seriously ill billionaire's life, and had been allegedly orchestrated by her adviser, Chan.

It argued that even if Wang had signed a fung shui will she did not intend it to have legal effect.

Chan denied knowing anything about fung shui. He said that 80 alleged fung shui holes dug in the ground at Chinachem's properties were only 'a game' between the couple and they were never intended to be a fung shui ritual to combat Wang's illness and to help locate her husband, Teddy Wang Tei-huei, who was kidnapped in 1990 and later declared dead.

The long-awaited ruling is expected to decide the circumstances surrounding the making of the disputed will in 2006 and who will inherit Wang's fortune.

Under court procedure, any notice of appeal must be filed within 28 days of the judgment date. The appellant may also want to formally apply for a stay of the execution of the judgment pending the outcome of an appeal.