21 Aug 2009
DR ESTHETIC PRODUCT RESEARCH & PRODUCTION CENTRE LTD AND ANOTHER v. NEXT MAGAZINE PUBLISHING LTD AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- DR ESTHETIC PRODUCT RESEARCH & PRODUCTION CENTRE LTD AND ANOTHER v. NEXT MAGAZINE PUBLISHING LTD AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2776/2006
The defendants' jury application was dismissed because the trial will require detailed scientific investigation of complex expert reports and numerous technical articles, which would substantially prolong the trial, increase costs and risk that a jury would not understand the issues, making a jury trial inconvenient under s33A(1); the court refused to strike out paragraphs 1.5–1.9 of the Further and Better Particulars because their relevancy to justification was not plainly unarguable, but struck out paragraph 6A(4) of the Amended Defence as irrelevant and prejudicial insofar as it related to…