31 Jul 2002
Leung Mei Kuen v. Fung Kam Shing and Others
- Citation
- Leung Mei Kuen v. Fung Kam Shing and Others
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI256/2001
Where interlocutory judgment had been entered against absent defendants the court assessed damages in favour of the plaintiffs by (1) adopting recent earnings adjusted by an 8% annual increment to derive notional trial income and pre-trial median income, (2) applying age-appropriate multipliers to calculate post-trial dependency awards, (3) calculating pre-trial dependency by reference to demonstrated household outgoings and depletion of savings, (4) awarding loss of accumulation of wealth where evidence showed capacity to save even absent strict recurrent savings pattern, (5) awarding bereav…