24 Sept 2024
TONG WAI YEE WINNIE v. SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2024] HKCA 881
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV18/2023
Appeal dismissed; Court affirmed the High Court's award of damages for breach of a collateral contract limited to actual pecuniary loss (net loss of earnings plus registration fee) after mitigation and tax; there was no evidential or legal basis to award general damages for emotional distress, future loss of earnings or exemplary damages because those causes were unproven, not pleaded or legally unavailable, and post-judgment events were irrelevant to quantum.