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Hong Kong Case Law

Transfer of claims
  • 25 Apr 2019

    LUI KING TONG v. HOSPITAL AUTHORITY

    Citation
    [2019] HKDC 376
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCPI2042/2016

    The joint medical report of 9 January 2018 established that the plaintiff's frozen shoulders and trigger fingers were unrelated to the accident and, considering the medical opinions and the plaintiff's employment, by that date the plaintiff ought to have known there was no reasonable prospect of recovering net damages near the Small Claims Tribunal ceiling; therefore the court varied the costs order nisi to assess the plaintiff's costs from 9 January 2018 on the Small Claims Tribunal scale and the earlier costs on the District Court scale.