Henry Leung v Hing Ling Yu [2008] NSWSC 90

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Henry Leung v Hing Ling Yu [2008] NSWSC 90

HEARING DATE(S) : 31 January 2008 JUDGMENT OF : McDougall J at 1

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 31 January 2008

DECISION : See paragraphs [54], [59] and [60] of the judgment.

CATCHWORDS : TRADE PRACTICES – misleading or deceptively conduct – passing off – whether 'get-up' sufficiently distinctive – whether exclusivity of reputation is required – whether serious question to be tried – interlocutory injunction – whether granting of interlocutory injunction will have the practical effect of determining the final issue.

LEGISLATION CITED : Fair Trading Act 1987

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

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Henry Pui Hung Leung (Plaintiff) Hing Ling YU t/as Hot Dollar Eastwood (First Defendant) Wai Kwong Yu t/as Hot Dollar Eastwood (Second Defendant) Wei Dong Gu t/as M's Hot Dollar (Third Defendant) PARTIES : May Warehouse Variety Pty Ltd (ACN 086 003 965) t/as Hot Dollars Warringah (Fourth Defendant) Shi Hua Chen t/as C & L Hot Dollar (Fifth Defendant) Zong Sheng Chen t/as CXL Hot Dollar Discount Store (Seventh Defendant) Jian Ping Zheng t/as ZC IJJ International (Eighth Defendant) Robert Law (Ninth Defendant)