Read the full judgment text of CACV 000027/1970 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 10 December 1970.
1. On 20th November, 1968 at about 4 p.m. a child aged about 6 years, was crossing Shatin Pass Road near the junction of this road with Chun Yan Road, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon, when he was knocked down and killed by a lorry driven in a southerly direction by the second respondent (hereinafter referred to as "the respondent"). Death must have supervened within a matter of minutes, if not seconds, because the child was very severely injured. There was an extensive deep irregular wound of the back ext