CHENG YUK SHIU, the Administrator of the estate of CHENG PING KEUNG,deceased v The Registrar General be appointed to represent the estate of MA WAI HOI, deceased formerly trading as HOI LEE SCAFFOLDING ENGINEERING

Read the full judgment text of HCA 004886/1989 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 October 1990.

1. This is an assessment of damages arising out of a fatal accident after the new amendments. At the very outset, the parties informed me that whatever the award, it is most likely that this would be an empty judgment. Nevertheless, both Miss Liu of the Legal Aid Department for the Plaintiff and Mrs. Goodman of the Registrar General's Department for the 1st Defendant had very helpfully gone through the various heads of award under the Law Amendment & Reform (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap. 23) an