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Hong Kong Case Law

Spinal injury
  • 5 May 1983

    CHAN CHUNG FUN v. TAM LUNG PAU AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    CHAN CHUNG FUN v. TAM LUNG PAU AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA4865/1982

    Court accepted unchallenged medical and lay evidence of complete C6-7 spinal cord transection and 100% permanent disability; applied the 'disaster' starting point and adjusted for inflation and individual circumstances to award general damages of HKD 300,000; applied multiplicand HKD 5,500 and multiplier 14 to future earnings to award HKD 924,000; awarded agreed special damages and proved special heads including attendant costs and wife's losses; applied differing interest rates to general and specified special damages; awarded costs to plaintiff.