Zong v Wang

• 1. Consumer Law
  2. › Misleading or deceptive conduct
  3. › Whether conduct is 'in trade or commerce'
  4. › Requirement that conduct be commercial in character
  5. › No requirement of extant commercial operation
  6. › Negotiations for proposed commercial venture conducted in social setting
  7. › Australian Consumer Law (Cth), s 18
• 1. Consumer Law
  2. › Misleading or deceptive conduct
  3. › Context of representations
  4. › Whether primary judge erroneously considered unpleaded or unproven representations
  5. › Other representations contextually relevant to meaning and effect of pleaded representations
• 1. Consumer Law
  2. › Misleading or deceptive conduct
  3. › Causation
  4. › Whether contravening conduct need be sole cause of loss
  5. › Sufficiency of material contribution to decision to invest
  6. › Role of context in informing judgment as to reliance
  7. › Australian Consumer Law (Cth), s 236
• 1. Consumer Law
  2. › Misleading or deceptive conduct
  3. › Damages
  4. › Shares acquired because of misleading representations
  5. › Whether loss measured by reference to residual value at date of transaction or date of hearing
  6. › Purchaser 'locked in' to closely held company
  7. › Deterioration of value inherent and not caused by supervening events
  8. › Australian Consumer Law (Cth), ss 236, 237, 243

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