AMBER COMPOUNDING PHARMACY PTE. LTD. & Anor v PRISCILLA LIM SUK LING & 5 Ors
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| Court | High Court (General Division) |
|---|---|
| Decided | |
| Judge | Dedar Singh Gill |
| Charges / claim | Intellectual Property |
| Counsel | Cairnhill Law LLC, Pereira & Tan LLC, Chan Chee Yun Timothy, Derek Kang Yu Hsien, Pereira George Barnabas, Yeo Wei Ying Jolyn |
Source: [2023] SGHC 241, High Court (General Division), decided — eLitigation. Updated .
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Case Significance
Amber Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd and another v Lim Suk Ling Priscilla and others [2023] SGHC 241 is a reserved judgment of Dedar Singh Gill J in the General Division of the High Court, delivered on 31 August 2023 in Suit No 164 of 2018 (Summons No 1589 of 2023). The plaintiffs, Amber Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd and Amber Laboratories Pte Ltd, brought the suit filed on 14 February 2018 against Priscilla Lim Suk Ling, UrbanRx Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd and others. The sole issue was whether a plaintiff in a breach of confidence claim can plead and claim that both its wrongful gain interest and wrongful loss interest, as established in I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting and others [2020] 1 SLR 1130, have been infringed; the judge answered that question in the affirmative.
[2023] SGHC 241 explained
AMBER COMPOUNDING PHARMACY PTE. LTD. & Anor v PRISCILLA LIM SUK LING & 5 Ors ([2023] SGHC 241) is a Singapore judgment decided by the High Court (General Division) on 31 August 2023. It is categorised under Intellectual Property. Within this corpus it has since been cited by 5 other reported Singapore judgments, a measure of how often later decisions have referred to it. This page summarises what the reported decision covers and links the primary sources — the full judgment, the statutes it cites, and the other cases it engages with — so the decision can be read in context. It is reference information, not legal advice, and it does not state the outcome or any holding beyond what the official judgment records.
What is [2023] SGHC 241 about?
AMBER COMPOUNDING PHARMACY PTE. LTD. & Anor v PRISCILLA LIM SUK LING & 5 Ors ([2023] SGHC 241) is a High Court (General Division) decision from 2023. Its published catchwords are “Intellectual Property — Law of confidence — Breach of confidence”, which indicate the subject matter the judgment addresses. The full reasoning and orders are in the judgment itself, linked below.
What earlier Singapore cases does [2023] SGHC 241 cite?
Among the in-corpus authorities it refers to are [2023] SGHC 34. The complete list of cases cited, and of later cases that cite this decision, is shown on this page.
How influential is [2023] SGHC 241?
Within this corpus, [2023] SGHC 241 has been cited by 5 later reported Singapore judgments. That count reflects references from other decisions held in this corpus only and is a conservative lower bound on how often the case has actually been cited.
Summary
Amber Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd and a related company sued former employees and a competing compounding pharmacy for breach of confidence involving alleged pharmaceutical formulations, price lists and client lists. In this summons, the sole issue was whether a plaintiff may plead and claim that both its wrongful gain interest and its wrongful loss interest, as established in I-Admin (CA), had been infringed. The High Court answered in the affirmative, holding the plaintiff may claim both.
What was Amber Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd v Lim Suk Ling Priscilla [2023] SGHC 241 about?
It was a breach of confidence dispute before Dedar Singh Gill J in which Amber Compounding Pharmacy and Amber Laboratories sued Priscilla Lim Suk Ling, UrbanRx Compounding Pharmacy and others, with judgment delivered on 31 August 2023 in Suit No 164 of 2018.
What did the court decide in [2023] SGHC 241?
Dedar Singh Gill J held that a plaintiff in a breach of confidence claim may plead and claim infringement of both its wrongful gain interest and its wrongful loss interest, as established in I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting [2020] 1 SLR 1130.
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Read on eLitigationSource: eLitigation ([2023] SGHC 241)