30 Aug 1994
HO PANG LIN AND ANOTHER v. HO SHUI ON AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- HO PANG LIN AND ANOTHER v. HO SHUI ON AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA4450/1993
Where the evidence established on the balance of probabilities that the deceased would have accumulated wealth by natural death despite absence of an identifiable savings pattern (due to thrift, settled lifestyle, family responsibilities and business prospects), the court may award a conservative global sum for loss of accumulation rather than a notional percentage; for dependency the court adopted the English conventional percentage approach (75% of income for widow and children) but applied an average multiplier of nine to reflect differing ages and stages of dependants, awarded gross depen…