Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 11 December 1987.
1. The parties to this action are the only 2 commercial television stations in Hong Kong. Their earnings depend very largely upon their revenue from their "airtime" advertising, which in turn depends upon the popularity of their programmes. Understandably they are arrivals, even fierce competitors in the words of one of their senior executives. Their competition extends to the purchase and acquisition of programmes produced by others. That competition was particularly fierce in 1977 and 1978 whe