The family of a top banker who died after receiving botox injections seven years ago has sued the Hong Kong clinic that offered the treatment, extending its founder’s legal woes just as a court earlier discharged him from a manslaughter trial.
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Franklin WP Li’s Surgery Limited, which operates the Tsim Sha Tsui clinic, has been accused of negligence and breach of duty of care over the use of a combination of sedatives and anaesthetics on Zoe Cheung Shuk-ling on November 11, 2018, according to a personal injury claim initiated in the High Court last Friday.
The writ, filed by Cheung’s estate managers, Roni Cheung Mei-ling and Cheung Oi-ling, also accused plastic surgeon Dr Franklin Li Wang-pong of conspiring with his wife and son to cause “culpable delay in summoning for emergency service to convey the deceased to hospital in a timeous fashion for life-saving treatment”.
The court document did not specify the amount of compensation sought. The first hearing has been tentatively scheduled for late April next year.
Cheung, who was the managing director of Swiss private bank Julius Baer in the city, died aged 52 on November 12, 2018, after sustaining hypoxic brain damage from oversedation.
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Earlier this year, a High Court jury ruled that Li, 93, was unfit to stand trial for manslaughter due to his advanced dementia.