Read the full judgment text of CACV 16/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 April 1972.
1. The plaintiff (appellant) is a company incorporated in Hong Kong; and since 1958 they have carried on the business of making, producing, distributing, and exhibiting motion pictures. The majority of the films produced by them during the last 5 years have been what are popular known as sword-play dramas. They produced 24 of such dramas in 1969, and a further 24 in 1970; and their claim to be the largest manufacturers and producers of this type of motion picture in the Chinese language was not