Read the full judgment text of DCPI 145/2001 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 17 June 2002.
1. On 26 September 2000 the plaintiff, Mr Stephen Olding, was a passenger on the defendant's flight SQ002 from Singapore to Hong Kong. He was accompanied by his friend, Miss Cecilia Choi. During the course of the journey she had ordered pineapple juice. By the time the aircraft had landed at Hong Kong International Airport she had only consumed about a quarter of it. The plaintiff decided to finish it so that he might put the plastic container that it had been served in into the seat pocket of t