Read the full judgment text of DCEC 1475/2012 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 6 November 2014.
1. At the beginning of today’s hearing, which is scheduled as the 1 st day of a 2 day assessment of damages hearing, the court raised with the applicant’s counsel of the way the section 9 compensation was calculated in his Opening Submission. In particular, the court raised with the applicant’s counsel, of the question why, while the injuries of the applicant did not fall within the First Schedule of the Employees’ Compensation Ordinance, Cap 282 (“the ECO”), the formula in the Hong Kong Paper M