Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Admissibility of supplemental expert reports

Legal area

Court

6 Jul 2017

CHAN TIT HUNG v. MAN KEE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CO LTD AND OTHERS

Citation

CHAN TIT HUNG v. MAN KEE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CO LTD AND OTHERS
Court

District Court
Case number

DCEC2315/2015

Leave to adduce supplemental medical evidence answering Question 1 (whether the applicant is unable to return to his pre-accident job due to combined effects of accident and pre-existing condition) was refused because the question seeks evidence about fitness to return to pre-accident work which is not relevant to the statutory task of assessing percentage loss of earning capacity under s.9 absent pleaded special circumstances; however the court allowed a different supplemental question addressing the total percentage loss of earning capacity caused by both the pre-existing condition and the…
1 Jun 2009

TSANG WAI FUN v. THE SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE AND ANOTHER

Citation

TSANG WAI FUN v. THE SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE AND ANOTHER
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCPI1112/2006

The court exercised its case management discretion to disallow the Defendant's late supplemental orthopaedic report, declined to order a joint psychiatric report, and directed that the existing expert reports be adduced without oral evidence because the judge can resolve the issues of pain severity and psychiatric exaggeration on the existing reports and oral evidence from the parties; the trial was reserved for four days and to be set down within four weeks with costs in the cause and Legal Aid taxation.

Hong Kong Case Law

CHAN TIT HUNG v. MAN KEE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CO LTD AND OTHERS

TSANG WAI FUN v. THE SECRETARY FOR JUSTICE AND ANOTHER