14 Aug 2003
LAM YIN FONG v. TSANG KAM CHEONG
- Citation
- LAM YIN FONG v. TSANG KAM CHEONG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI1458/2000
The judge found the claimant suffered gross, permanent disabilities as a result of the defendant's negligence and awarded damages quantified by itemized assessment: general damages $900,000; allowed or adjusted specified past and future heads (medical, consumables, domestic services, future loss of earnings calculated with multipliers and discounts); excluded compensation for the portion of depression not attributable or reasonably foreseeable from the negligence; allowed parents' loss of society under s20C as a modest sum of $25,000; awarded total damages of $3,489,062.60 and costs to be tax…