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…