Wang v Kaymet Corporation Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1528

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Wang v Kaymet Corporation Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1528 Hearing dates: On the papers; submissions received 8 and 13 October 2015 Decision date: 15 October 2015 Jurisdiction: Equity - Technology and Construction List Before: Stevenson J Decision: Plaintiffs to pay defendants' costs, except for those associated with expert report of Mr Wynn-Jones; directions to be made as to defendants' claim for damages arising from plaintiffs' undertaking as to damages Catchwords: COSTS – assessment – whether successful defendants should not be awarded full costs because of the manner in which evidence-in-chief was adduced – whether defendants should not have costs associated with two expert reports Cases Cited: Wang v Kaymet Corporation Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1058 Wang v Kaymet Corporation Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1459 Category: Costs 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 Limited (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 (Defendants)