United Kingdom

Yat Tung Investment Co Ltd v Dao Heng Bank Ltd

[1975] AC 581

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

Year1975

Statusunclear

Key Principle

A party cannot avoid finality by fragmenting one dispute into successive proceedings; the doctrine includes matters that properly belonged to the earlier litigation.

Area of Law

Civil Procedure — res-judicata

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