Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 003221/1999 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 29 November 2002.
1. The plaintiff is a Hong Kong company trading in artificial flowers which are made on the Mainland. The defendant is a company registered in Germany and a distributor of such flowers. The parties did business together for a period up to late 1997. The plaintiff is operated by its director, Mr. Jan Verkade, a Dutch national, and his wife Ms. Julia Zhao, whom I will call Julia, for that is how her name appears on the various communications coming from the plaintiff to the defendant in this case.