15 Feb 2018
DARTSLIVE ASIA LTD v. SO WANG CHUN (ALSO KNOWN AS STEVEN SO) AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFI 335
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2291/2016
The application for a split trial was dismissed because the court concluded the case is not analogous to typical IP matters where liability can be cleanly separated from quantum, the pleadings do not disclose a clear demarcation between liability and quantum (evidence as to individual customers and employees will straddle both), the likely duplication of witnesses and risk of satellite litigation outweigh any speculative cost savings, and no exceptional circumstances were established to justify departing from the usual single trial of all issues.