Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000529/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 June 2000.
1. This is one of those cases of a catastrophe to a young person, which all too often features in these Courts as a result of extreme negligence on the part of another human being. In this case the Plaintiff, a man now 38 years of age, was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital at Pokfulam complaining of chest pain on 17 July 1993. The Hospital's staff negligently administered an excessive dose or doses of lignocaine as a consequence of which he suffered cerebral anoxia and has been in that state w
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