Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000167/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 December 1997.
1. This is a claim for damages for personal injuries, essentially scalding and scarring by boiling water, arising out of an incident when the Plaintiff undid the radiator cap of a Public Light Bus (PLB) and released steam and gushing water. He sues the Defendant whom he alleges carried out certain maintenance and/or repair work on the PLB on the afternoon of the day on which he suffered his injuries, the 26th July 1990.