Read the full judgment text of HCPI 001153/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 November 1997.
1. The Plaintiff, a divorced man of forty-nine years of age, seeks damages against the Defendant for injuries sustained by him on the afternoon of 15 th December 1992 when, in the course of his employment, he was engaged in demolition work on the roof of a cooked food stall building at Pok Hong Estate in Shatin. It is the Plaintiff's case that, while working on the roof, he slipped and fell and sustained an injury to his lower back later confirmed to be a prolapsed disc.