8 Aug 1969
EUGENE MAH YAU CHIM v. C. KING LEE AND OTHERS
- Citation
- EUGENE MAH YAU CHIM v. C. KING LEE AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV16/1969
The court held that it would permit the appellants to raise additional grounds given the liberty interest, but it would not sustain committal of the first defendant on the first injunction because the order was ambiguous as to whether it bound goods allegedly sold prior to the injunction and it would be improper to allow retrospective dispensation of personal service to convert otherwise non‑criminal conduct into a contempt; on the second committal the failures were real but not of a severity warranting further imprisonment beyond the time already served (six days).