The District Courtroom on Friday dominated in Mo Li Kai-yin’s favour after discovering “clear suspicion” that his employer, Studiodanz, evaded civil legal responsibility below the Staff’ Compensation Ordinance by failing to look at court docket proceedings.
Decide Phillis Loh Lai-ping mentioned the compensation lawsuit had been dragged on for lengthy sufficient and hoped the remaining proceedings wouldn’t trigger an excessive amount of “struggling” to Li, who has been paralysed from the neck down because the accident at Hong Kong Coliseum on July 28, 2022.
The ordinance gives a mechanism for staff to assert damages arising from unintended accidents throughout their employment.
Li, 30, can be entitled to greater than HK$3.5 million (US$445,890) in compensation if the court docket discovered his damage resulted in everlasting complete incapacity, in line with the Publish’s estimate below the legislation.
Part 7 of the ordinance stipulates that an worker aged beneath 40 who is totally incapacitated for all times shall be entitled to a lump sum cost equal to 96 months’ earnings or HK$3,508,800, whichever is decrease.
Li acknowledged in his writ that his month-to-month earnings was greater than HK$73,000 earlier than the accident.
