Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Deduction for employees' compensation

Legal area

Court

9 Feb 2024

SHAUKET IQBAL v. WAMPUM ENGINEERING COMPANY AND OTHERS

Citation

[2024] HKDC 236
Court

District Court
Case number

DCPI963/2021

The Master accepted the unchallenged oral evidence of the plaintiff and the medical expert report. Applying comparable authorities, the nature of the injury and prognosis, the Master awarded PSLA $200,000. The Master calculated pre‑trial loss of earnings using the plaintiff's prior monthly wage and actual later earnings, accepting sick leave to 3 April 2019 and summing the periods to arrive at $671,769. For future loss the court adopted an increased notional wage ($22,402), used the actual current earnings ($14,880) to derive a monthly loss of $7,522, applied a multiplier of 8.79 and a 1.05 u…
17 Sept 2010

LAU HO MING v. WONG PAK HO

Citation

LAU HO MING v. WONG PAK HO
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCPI254/2009

Master accepted plaintiff's factual and medical evidence, found injuries caused significant but not 'serious' disability to right eye, awarded PSLA at HK$370,000 by comparison with authorities, accepted pre-accident and post-accident earning levels and applied multiplier 9 for future loss giving HK$766,800, awarded HK$29,400 for loss of earning capacity, allowed specified special damages and future medical expenses, deducted the EC Judgment value of HK$164,817, and entered judgment for the plaintiff for a net sum of HK$1,344,533 with specified interest and costs orders.