Read the full judgment text of CACV 000036/1988 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 May 1988.
1. On 29th October 1985 the appellant, then aged 72, was employed by the respondent bank as a building caretaker at their premises Hong Ying Building, Nathan Road. He apparently had occasion to reprove a group of youths. He was attacked, and in consequence fell from the top to the bottom of some stairs. He sustained two serious injuries: a fracture of the neck of the left femur, and the fracture of the right os calcis. The latter has healed comparatively well, but the former required prosthetic