Read the full judgment text of CACV 000493/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 March 2001.
1. On 31 January 1996 Mr Mak Hung Yin went to the Social Welfare Department office on the 7th floor of Kwai Hing Government Offices in Kwai Chung. There is no doubt that by the time he emerged from the ground floor of the building, within the hour, he had suffered an injury that caused an epidural haematoma. On the next day he had an operation to remove the clot that had formed.