Read the full judgment text of CACV 000075/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 April 1998.
1. This action arose from an alleged accident which occurred on 28 August 1992. The plaintiff claims to have suffered from an electrocution shock on that day. The shock caused him to jerk upwards and forwards, thus leaving him with residual pain. He was treated in hospital on the diagnosis of a prolapsed intervertebral disc. A primary line of defence is based on his alleged past back pain. The defendants strongly refute the plaintiff's claim of injury from an electrocution shock, and there would