Read the full judgment text of HCPI 001088/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 May 1998.
1. The present action arises out of an industrial accident occurred on 26 th May 1994. The Plaintiff, in the course of employment by the Defendant as a scaffolding worker, fell down from a scaffold at the outer wall of a building in Yuen Long. As a result, he sustained injury in his right elbow. On 12 th June 1997, HH Judge Kwan awarded employees' compensation of $317,031.56 to the Plaintiff: see Employees' Compensation Case No.599 of 1995 ("The EC Case"). The present action was commenced on 11