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Quality control procedures
  • 18 Nov 2014

    READY SET GOAL LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) AND ANOTHER v. KAY-EL (HONG KONG) LTD

    Citation
    READY SET GOAL LTD (IN LIQUIDATION) AND ANOTHER v. KAY-EL (HONG KONG) LTD
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA223/2013

    Leave to adduce expert evidence granted in part: plaintiffs may call experts on whether the iGoals were defective and on reasonable pre-IOS quality control procedures (Schedule 1 paragraphs 1–5) because those technical issues are beyond lay fact witnesses and are relevant to whether the defendant breached its agency/contractual duties; paragraph 6 (merchantable quality) refused as merchantable quality is a question of condition of goods and does not require investigation into manufacturing quality control. The court set deadlines for exchange of expert reports and made a summary costs award o…