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Hong Kong Case Law

Chronic pain

  • 4 Aug 2009

    WONG KA YEE v. GAY GIANO INTERNATIONAL LTD

    Citation
    WONG KA YEE v. GAY GIANO INTERNATIONAL LTD
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCEC436/2007

    Psychiatric expert evidence was admitted because the applicant produced sufficient prima facie evidence of a recognisable psychiatric condition linked to the accident, cardiothoracic experts could not rule out psychiatric causation of chronic pain, and the genuineness and severity of chronic pain (and its psychiatric correlation) are central contested issues that psychiatric opinion would materially assist the trial judge; expert directions were varied to permit one cardiothoracic and one psychiatric expert for each party and procedural timetables were imposed.

  • 2 Jun 2008

    HO CHI SING v. TAM KWOK MING AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    HO CHI SING v. TAM KWOK MING AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCPI161/2000

    The court refused the plaintiff\u2019s application to call an additional pain expert and upheld the Master\u2019s order limiting expert evidence and the plaintiff\u2019s election of Dr Knobler; communications between defendants\u2019 solicitors and their experts are not disclosable absent waiver and were not waived here; contemporaneous notes of examination by Dr Yu and Dr Lee are discoverable; parties\u2019 experts may file medical literature in support of opinions; supplemental witness statement to be served within 28 days; plaintiff to disclose insurance position; cross-examination of defe…