28 Mar 2025
TAM KA HO v. NEWOCEAN OIL PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 1255
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI1325/2016
On the evidence and expert joint reports the plaintiff sustained an incomplete paraplegia with significant paraparesis, required lifetime wheelchair use and assistance, and suffered psychiatric and mild urological sequelae; after crediting employees' compensation of HKD 2,173,644.75 the court assessed general, pre-trial and post-trial losses and future care needs and, adopting the parties' agreed pragmatic approach, entered judgment for the plaintiff in the net sum of HKD 17,800,000 plus costs (award included PSLA HKD 1,600,000, specified pre-trial and post-trial heads and used a 32-year expe…