Read the full judgment text of HCA 001418/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 29 October 1999.
2. On the test of contractor or employee, all the authorities in England and Hong Kong have settled on what may be called the multi-factor approach. There is, however, no definitive list of factors as the authorities recognize that the relevant factors may vary from case to case. As a convenient reference, I shall focus on the 8 factors listed in Chitty on Contracts, Volume II, pp 703 - 704 relied upon by V. Bokhary J in The Royal Hong Kong Golf Club v. Cheng Yuen [1996] 3 HKC 121. I shall state