Mr Justice Raymond Pace presided over 5 cases concerning shipments of counterfeit goods, and issued a similar ruling in each of them.

One case concerned a shipment of 1,944 pairs of shoes bearing the Kappa brand name and imported by Chihab Echark Import & Export, a company based in Batna, Algeria, while another targeted 3,324 pairs of counterfeit Puma shoes brought over by Chinese company Shenzhen Yongxingbang Industry Co Ltd.

Mr Justice Pace also ruled over 6.49 million counterfeit Sovereign cigarettes imported by Panama-based company America Import Corp SA, and 5,550 mobile phone accessories bearing the Sony Ericsson brand brought over by a Sousse, Tunisia-based company.

The final case concerned 120,000 pills produced by Indian firm Kwality Pharmaceuticals. The pills contained sildenafil citrate, the compound used in Viagra, and their name – “Venigra” – and distinctive blue diamond shape were deemed to be a violation of the intellectual property of Pfizer, Viagra’s producers.

In all cases, Mr Justice Pace ordered the objects’ destruction within 90 days – 60 days in the Puma shoes’ case – without compensation and at the importer’s expense.

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