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NLJ this week: Duty calls for directors after Lifestyle Equities

06 September 2024
Issue: 8084 / Categories: Legal News , Company , In Court , Copyright
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The Supreme Court clarified the scope of directors’ duties in a recent landmark decision on trade mark infringement

Peter Knox KC and Adam Riley, both 3 Hare Court, and Remy Choo, joint managing director of RCL Chambers Law Corporation and an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, cover the case in this week’s NLJ.

They set out the salient points and implications of the decision, in which Lord Leggatt addressed directors’ duties, accessory liability and orders for account of profit. The case arose from a trade mark dispute between two companies, one which sold clothes with a logo of a man on a horse playing polo next to the name ‘Santa Monica Polo Club’, while the other sold products bearing the name ‘Beverley Hills Polo Club’. 

The authors also explain the Supreme Court’s consideration of and adoption of the Singapore Court of Appeal’s reasoning in PT Sandipala.

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Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

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Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

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