Read the full judgment text of CACV 000048/1991 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 26 September 1991.
1. Northrop Corporation, the parent company of the plaintiff in these proceedings, is a well-known aircraft manufacturer. In 1983 it was keen to sell particular fighter aircraft to the Korean Air Force. As a condition of any such sale the Korean Government would have expected the plaintiff to enter into what were called "offset programmes" for the benefit of the Korean economy, either by arranging for some part of the manufacture of the aircraft to be carried out in Korea or for the plaintiff to