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Free balance apportionment
  • 5 Oct 1990

    LO SUI KUEN AND ANOTHER v. YEUNG TING FOR

    Citation
    LO SUI KUEN AND ANOTHER v. YEUNG TING FOR
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA3948/1988

    Court accepted employer's salary evidence, found promotion to be probable and fixed notional monthly earnings at trial date of $10,298.55; after detailed assessment of household expenditure and lifestyle the court fixed the free balance at 45%; applied median income for pre-trial loss over 57.5 months and the agreed multiplier of 15 for future loss; awarded specified sums for funeral, loss of expectation of life, pre-trial and future loss, ordered interest at specified rates and costs to plaintiff with a certificate for counsel.