Wang v Kaymet Corporation Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1058

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Wang v Kaymet Corporation Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1058 Hearing dates: 24 July 2015 Decision date: 24 July 2015 Jurisdiction: Equity Division - Technology and Construction List Before: Stevenson J Decision: Tender of expert report rejected Catchwords: EVIDENCE – admissibility – expert opinion – whether opinion shown to be based on expert's specialised knowledge – whether expert's process of reasoning revealed – whether mere ipse dixit – whether report unfairly prejudicial to the plaintiffs Legislation Cited: Civil Liabilities Act 2002 (NSW) Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Qi Wang (First Plaintiff) Jue Li (Second Plaintiff) Xiaoyan Xi (Third Plaintiff) Bin Wang (Fourth Plaintiff) Xiaozheng Lao (Fifth Plaintiff) Siping Xia (Sixth Plaintiff) Meng Shi (Seventh Plaintiff) Yijie Wang (Eighth Plaintiff) Yu Di Xi (Ninth Plaintiff) Qian Li Yan (Tenth Plaintiff) Kai Jie Gu (Eleventh Plaintiff) Li Ye (Twelfth Plaintiff) Jia Jia Ye (Thirteenth Plaintiff) Yanchong Wei (Fourteenth Plaintiff) Zhen Jiang Li (Fifteenth Plaintiff) Lisa Chan (Sixteenth Plaintiff) Peter Ray (Seventeenth Plaintiff) Hai Xu (Eighteenth Plaintiff) Chao Lu Ye (Nineteenth Plaintiff) Na Lu (Twentieth Plaintiff) Liang Qiao (Twenty-first Plaintiff) Jiannan Zhang (Twenty-second Plaintiff) Jie Ma (Twenty-third Plaintiff) Qian Lan (Twenty-fourth Plaintiff) Ling Xu (Twenty-fifth Plaintiff) Ahmed Nizamuddin (Twenty-sixth Plaintiff) Alexander Lissaman (Twenty-seventh Plaintiff) Yingqi Wang (Twenty-eighth Plaintiff) Liu Qing Xu (Twenty-ninth Plaintiff) Junfeng Wang (Thirtieth Plaintiff) Wen Shi (Thirty-first Plaintiff) Shaocong Zhou (Thirty-second Plaintiff) Yibing Zhou (Thirty-third Plaintiff) Boying Gu (Thirty-fourth Plaintiff) Yonglan Shen (Thirty-fifth Plaintiff) Lili Gu (Thirty-sixth Plaintiff) Weidong Li (Thirty-seventh Plaintiff) Wei Huang (Thirty-eighth Plaintiff) Can Zhao (Thirty-ninth Plaintiff) Helen Hoi Peng Fong (Fortieth Plaintiff) Huey Ling Liew (Forty-first Plaintiff) Jian Zhong Wu (Forty-second Plaintiff) Tianjiao Liu (Forty-third Plaintiff) Kaymet Corporation Pty Ltd (First Defendant) Toufic Bachara Kayrouz (Second Defendant) Lichah Kayrouz (Third Defendant) William Joseph Metlej (Fourth Defendant) Representation: Counsel: A J McInerney SC with S Jacobs (Plaintiffs) F C Corsaro SC with P J Bambagiotti and M Auld (Defendants)