A Hong Kong court has ordered a trial to determine the compensation sum to be paid to a dancer by his employer, after he was paralysed from the neck down in an accident at a concert featuring the popular boy band Mirror.
District Court judge Phillis Loh Lai-ping said on Friday she believed that Studiodanz, Mo Li Kai-yin’s employer at the time of the accident, was “evading civil responsibility” as its representatives had failed to attend any hearings in the case and had been uncontactable.
Loh noted that Li’s lawyers had tried all possible means to deliver the relevant legal documents to the company’s registered address, but to no avail.
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Evidence showed that someone had been in Studiodanz’s office, as the registered mail had been signed for before being sent back, the judge added.
“The court is satisfied that [the company] is evading civil responsibility,” she said.
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Loh said the lawsuit could not afford any further delay and directed a one-day trial to be held on May 4.
The trial will focus on deciding how much compensation Studiodanz is liable to pay Li, with the calculation to follow a statutory mechanism that allows workers to claim damages from injuries sustained during employment.