PRISCILLA LIM SUK LING & Anor v AMBER COMPOUNDING PHARMACY PTE. LTD. & Anor

Case Significance

Lim Suk Ling Priscilla and another v Amber Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd and another [2024] SGCA 16 was decided by the Singapore Court of Appeal on 20 May 2024, in Civil Appeal No 38 of 2023. The grounds of decision were delivered by Steven Chong JCA, sitting with Sundaresh Menon CJ and Andrew Phang Boon Leong SJ, following the hearing on 26 March 2024. The matter concerned the law of confidence and breach of confidence. The court described the appeal as unusual in one significant aspect: it allowed the appeal even though it found that the judge below had been entirely correct on the issue argued before him. The appellants, Priscilla Lim Suk Ling and UrbanRx Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd, had entered into a consent judgment in an action for breach of confidence concerning numerous documents containing confidential information (the "Confidential Information") that were improperly obtained during the first appellant's part-time employment with the respondents, Amber Compounding Pharmacy Pte Ltd and Amber Laboratories Pte Ltd. Prior to the assessment of damages, and given the breadth of the pleadings, the judge had invited the parties to reach an agreement. The appellants were represented by Pereira & Tan LLC, and the respondents by Cairnhill Law LLC.