Dootson Investment Corporation and Another v Highway Video Pte Ltd and Another Action
| Jurisdiction | Singapore |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 1997 |
| Date | 28 November 1997 |
| Docket Number | Suits Nos 196 and 199 of 1994 |
| Court | High Court (Singapore) |
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4 cases
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Li Siu Lun v Looi Kok Poh
...context of proof of quantum. I begin with a local case. GP Selvam J in Dootson Investment Corporation & Anor v Highway Video Pte Ltd [1997] 3 SLR(R) 823 (“Dootson”) held that the principle of damages at large (in a tort where it is applicable) would extend to the assessment of damages. Quot......
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Li Siu Lun v Looi Kok Poh and another
...context of proof of quantum. I begin with a local case. GP Selvam J in Dootson Investment Corporation & Anor v Highway Video Pte Ltd [1997] 3 SLR(R) 823 (“Dootson”) held that the principle of damages at large (in a tort where it is applicable) would extend to the assessment of damages. Quot......
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Highway Video Pte Ltd v Lim Tai Wah; Teng Yock Poh v Lim Tai Wah; Teng Kem Hong v Lim Tai Wah
...Apart from a civil copyright infringement by Highway Video Pte Ltd reported in Dootson Investment Corporation v. Highway Video Pte Ltd [1998] 1 SLR 497, Mr Wong informed me that all the respondents did not have any criminal antecedents. I made it clear that for sentencing purposes, I would ......
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Creative Technology Ltd v Cosmos Trade-Nology Pte Ltd and Another
...in this regard to cite the decision of GP Selvam J (as he then was) in Dootson Investment Corporation & Anor v Highway Video Pte Ltd [1998] 1 SLR 497, 499, 501. Quoting the learned authors of McGregor on Damages, the learned judge In certain cases general damages may be awarded in the sense......
2 books & journal articles
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ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES
...(Malaysia) Sdn Bhd v The Monarch Beverage Co (Europe) Ltd[2010] 1 SLR 1212 at [55]. In Dootson Investment Corp v Highway Video Pte Ltd[1997] 3 SLR(R) 823, G P Selvam J held that, in relation to copyright infringement, damages were “at large”, although loss of profits that could be proved by......
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Tort Law
...the court should refer to ‘the yardstick of the reasonable man’: at [45], citing Dootson Investment Corp v Highway Video Pte Ltd[1997] 3 SLR(R) 823 at [7], per G P Selvam J. Belinda Ang Saw Ean J also stated that this approach was consistent with ‘common sense to achieve justice, not only t......