Read the full judgment text of CACV 000021/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 June 1971.
1. I agree. Foreign law is a question of fact in these courts. Before the District Judge, the respondent called no evidence to support the suggestion now made by her counsel in this court that the Chinese Civil Code was repealed and replaced by a statute introduced by the People's Republic of China and that since 1950 divorce in Kwantung involves some sort of Governmental and judicial intervention. That may well be so; but matters of this sort should be established by evidence before the court o