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Hong Kong Case Law

Dependants' award
  • 9 Nov 1988

    CHONG CHOI WOON AND OTHERS v. WHAMPOA MARINE TERMINALS LTD.

    Citation
    CHONG CHOI WOON AND OTHERS v. WHAMPOA MARINE TERMINALS LTD.
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA1492/1987

    The court increased the conventional award for loss of expectation of life to $30,000, allowed funeral expenses of $34,060, calculated pre-trial loss of earnings as $180,183 and applied a 70% free balance to yield $126,128, calculated future loss using a monthly multiplicand of $5,497 with a multiplier of 13 and a 55% post-trial free balance yielding $471,643, rejected allowance for additional $50,000 for increments/bonuses, offset the award by employee's compensation of $282,500, and apportioned the net award among the widow and children with specified interest rates and investment direction…