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Hong Kong Case Law

Accumulation of wealth

  • 14 Dec 1999

    LIU KANG FUN AND ANOTHER v. TSUI WAI PING

    Citation
    LIU KANG FUN AND ANOTHER v. TSUI WAI PING
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCPI666/1995

    Assessment accepted plaintiffs' factual evidence and calculations with judicial adjustments: daily wage adopted at HK$1,200 and 24 working days; monthly contribution apportioned as half wages and family apportionment one quarter; multipliers adopted as 13 for widow and two young children, 8 for deceased's mother and father-in-law (mother-in-law 10); accumulation of wealth accepted at 20% of lifetime earnings; bereavement fixed at HK$70,000; funeral HK$13,000; interest applied as stated; infants' shares to be paid into court and invested.

  • 27 Jun 1990

    LEE CHING HA AND OTHERS v. KIT MAN AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    LEE CHING HA AND OTHERS v. KIT MAN AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA1540/1989

    On the available evidence the master accepted pre-death earnings of HK$8,000 per month and HK$12,000 at date of death, assessed future earnings at HK$20,000 per month, awarded HK$40,000 bereavement, quantified pre-trial and post-trial dependency with agreed multipliers producing HK$551,590.80 under the Fatal Accidents Ordinance, allowed substantiated funeral expenses HK$7,700 and an award for accumulation of wealth to the two sons totaling HK$680,328.07 under Cap.23 s.20(2)(b)(iii), ordered interest at judgment rate on funeral and pre-assessment loss but not on future loss, and ordered costs…

  • 2 Oct 1989

    WAI KANG KWAN AND ANOTHER v. WONG WING HONG AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    WAI KANG KWAN AND ANOTHER v. WONG WING HONG AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA1803/1989

    The court rejected the defendant's pro rata entitlement approach and based dependency awards on actual and probable contributions of the deceased (accepting $50 to each brother and $1,330 to parents at death, escalated to trial and post-trial figures using agreed multipliers and observed wage growth); the court refused a speculative award for accumulation of wealth but awarded an additional conservative multiplier of three for continued parental support on the evidence of probable post-multiplier contributions.