Read the full judgment text of HCA 001652/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 23 May 1997.
1. This is an application for summary judgment by the plaintiffs, companies incorporated in Japan. They, at all material times, manufactured dotmatrix printers and they supplied these printers to the 1 st defendant who then sold them in mainland China. The 1st defendant is a company incorporated in Hong Kong. The 2 nd defendant is the 1st defendant's managing director, and according to the plaintiffs, the beneficial owner of all the shares in the 1st defendant's company.