31 Jul 2002
Mak Kwan Tai v. Fung Kam Shing and Others
- Citation
- Mak Kwan Tai v. Fung Kam Shing and Others
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI184/2001
With defendants absent and on the evidential record the court adopted an 8% annual notional income increment where supported by pre-death increases, applied appropriate multiplicands and age-based multipliers to calculate pre-trial and post-trial dependency, awarded loss of accumulation of wealth on demonstrated/minimum saving bases (applying Lam Pak Chiu), and allowed bereavement, funeral expenses, interest and costs accordingly.