Read the full judgment text of CACV 000068/1990 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 18 October 1990.
1. In January 1967 the Plaintiff, Mrs. Yiu Yun, also known as Yiu Kam, then in her late forties, underwent at Queen Mary Hospital an operation for the removal of stones from her gall bladder. The operation was a success save that unfortunately the operating team failed to remove from her body one of the surgical swabs that had been used in the course of the operation.