TSANG NGAN HO and CHAN LIN ON (Administratrices of the estate of CHAN PAK CHEUNG deceased) v CHAN KAN NING otherwise known as CHAN KAU

Read the full judgment text of HCA 001570/1972 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.

1. The plaintiff's claim is for damages under the Fatal Accidents Ordinance and the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance now the Law Amendment and Reform (Consolidation) Ordinance for the death of her husband who was killed by the defendant on the 25th May 1970 after an assault. The defendant was subsequently charged with murder to which he pleaded not guilty but the Crown accepted a plea of guilty to manslaughter. The defendant was bound over to be of good behaviour in his own recogn