23 Jun 2010
CHOW KAR WEI v. TAKAHASHI DESIGN HONG KONG LTD
- Citation
- CHOW KAR WEI v. TAKAHASHI DESIGN HONG KONG LTD
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCPI2757/2008
The defendant was negligent for failing to provide assistance or equipment despite prior warning, and the plaintiff was not contributorily negligent; both experts agreed the accident aggregated a pre-existing spinal condition. Applying the Chan Kam Hoi approach the court classified the case in the category where the pre-existing condition would likely have manifested in the near future and applied a 45% global discount to general damages and earnings losses, resulting in an award totaling HKD 429,853 with specified interest rates.