5 Sept 2025
CARTIER INTERNATIONAL AG AND OTHERS v. DYNASTY JEWELRY (HONG KONG) LTD AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2025] HKCA 818
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV232/2021
Where an applicant in civil committal proceedings proves contempt beyond reasonable doubt on available evidence, a respondent who advances an affirmative explanation (eg that incriminating statements were mere 'sales talk') must lay some evidential basis for that explanation; the respondent's right to silence does not relieve him of the evidential burden to support such a defence and the court may convict in the absence of contrary evidence, accordingly the proposed questions were unarguable and leave to appeal was refused.