1 Aug 2006
The vice-president found the applicant raised no arguable ground for appeal because the admitted facts, documentary evidence and trial judge's findings (including rejection of the gift explanation and the MPDA/cross-border rights arguments) properly supported the conviction for making for sale or hire infringing copies; accordingly the application for leave to appeal was dismissed.
16 Apr 2004
The trial judge erred in treating the applicant's partly exculpatory statement as inadmissible as to truth and in finding that anyone entering Place A must necessarily have known the contents of Place B; however, on the admitted facts the Court of Appeal concluded that, applying the proviso to s.83 CPO, there was sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction for possession for the purpose of trade (s.118(1)(d)) for 150 CD-ROMs but insufficient evidence to support convictions for making for sale or hire (s.118(1)(a)) and possession of manufacturing equipment (s.118(8)), so convictions for char…