This judgment is subject to final editorial corrections approved by the court and/or redaction pursuant to the publisher’s duty in compliance with the law, for publication in LawNet and/or the Singapore Law Reports. I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting and others [2020] SGCA 32 Court of Appeal — Civil Appeal No 5 of 2019 Sundaresh Menon CJ, Andrew Phang Boon Leong JA and Quentin Loh J 30 January 2020 6 April 2020 Judgment reserved. Sundaresh Menon CJ (delivering the judgment of the court): Introduction 1 This appeal arises out of a dispute between the appellant, I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd, its former employees and some related parties. The dispute concerned certain acts that pertained to the appellant’s payroll processing software and business materials. The appellant commenced Suit 585 of 2013 (“Suit 585/2013”) in the High Court, contending, among other things, that the respondents had infringed its copyright and acted in breach of confidence. 2 The High Court judge (“the Judge”) found in favour of the respondents and held there was no copyright infringement. Neither were the respondents in breach of their obligations of confidence: I-Admin (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Hong Ying Ting and others and another suit [2019] SGHC 127 (“GD”). 3 The appellant’s predicament is an example of an increasingly common