Dootson Investment Corporation and Another v Highway Video Pte Ltd and Another Action

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date28 November 1997
Date28 November 1997
Docket NumberSuits Nos 196 and 199 of 1994
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
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4 cases
  • Li Siu Lun v Looi Kok Poh
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 29 May 2015
    ...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......
  • Li Siu Lun v Looi Kok Poh and another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 29 May 2015
    ...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......
  • Highway Video Pte Ltd v Lim Tai Wah; Teng Yock Poh v Lim Tai Wah; Teng Kem Hong v Lim Tai Wah
    • Singapore
    • Magistrates' Court (Singapore)
    • 28 August 2001
    ...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 ......
  • Creative Technology Ltd v Cosmos Trade-Nology Pte Ltd and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 8 January 2004
    ...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
  • ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...(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......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...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......

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