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Hong Kong Case Law

Sick role

  • 22 Oct 2015

    HUNG SAU FUNG v. LAI PING WAI AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    HUNG SAU FUNG v. LAI PING WAI AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV240/2011

    The Court upheld the trial judge's factual findings that the plaintiff reached MMI by March 2009, there was no objective evidence of persistent muscle wasting or CRPS1, and that the plaintiff had adopted an abnormal sick role caused by his personality rather than by the accident; accordingly causation was broken for losses flowing from that sick role and the trial awards were adjusted: PSLA and pre-trial loss awards were upheld, but future loss of earnings and caregiver awards were varied as set out.

  • 30 Jun 2009

    YIP KOON MAN v. YUEN LONG MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION SECONDARY SCHOOL

    Citation
    YIP KOON MAN v. YUEN LONG MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION SECONDARY SCHOOL
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCEC602/2008

    Leave to obtain a supplemental psychiatric expert opinion was refused because the joint report already addressed the clinical issues raised, the proposed questions were either speculative or outside the proper scope of psychiatric expert evidence (eg employability and ultimate veracity), and such matters are for the trial judge to determine; therefore further clarification was unnecessary.