1 Sept 1975
LIU SHIU KEUNG t/a KEUNG KEE TRANSPORTATION CO v. WONG BING SENG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- LIU SHIU KEUNG t/a KEUNG KEE TRANSPORTATION CO v. WONG BING SENG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2069/1974
Court accepted plaintiffs' evidence to fix dependency at $700 per month, applied a multiplier of 14 for a 46-year-old healthy private bus driver to calculate a lump sum of $117,600 under the Fatal Accidents Ordinance (to be reduced by Workmen's Compensation paid); assessed $10,000 for loss of expectation of life and $3,155 funeral expenses under the Law Amendment and Reform (Consolidation) Ordinance (merging with general award), awarded $50 for clothing, directed interest at 4% on the $3,205 from 18 June 1973 and 8% on the Fatal Accidents award from 15 January 1975, and ordered costs to plain…