17 Jul 2025
LAU KA LAI v. HUMANA MEDICAL LTD T/A HEALTH CARE & CO
- Citation
- [2025] HKDC 1176
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ3186/2022
The court held that the pleaded complaints clearly fall within the Limitation Ordinance definition of personal injuries, the causes of action accrued by or before the date the plaintiff left employment (30 Nov 2018) and therefore the 3-year limitation under s27 LO expired by 30 Nov 2021; the plaintiff did not acquire qualifying knowledge later nor act sufficiently promptly to justify disapplication under s30 LO, and in any event the PI claims are doomed to fail and are frivolous/vexatious given absence of medical proof and inability to establish causation; accordingly paragraphs seeking PI da…