3 Dec 2020
TACHING PETROLEUM CO, LTD v. MEYER ALUMINIUM LTD
- Citation
- [2020] HKCA 1005
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAMP158/2020
The Court upheld the Deputy President's case management: expert evidence must be confined to matters relevant to the pleaded case; market definition and broad expert opinions on whether parallel pricing proves collusion were irrelevant to the pleaded 'object' defence and therefore disallowed; the only sufficiently arguable interlocutory point meriting leave was whether expert evidence on damages/set-off under the Competition Ordinance should be admitted because of a potential statutory lacuna; the redaction and particulars refusals were discretionary and not plainly wrong.