Read the full judgment text of HCA 002642/1988 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 16 September 1988.
1. On 1st September 1986 the deceased, in the course of his employment as a container truck driver, was waiting in the cab of his truck while a 20-foot container on the the rear of his truck was being loaded from the wharf of the 2nd Defendant's godown on Tsing Yi Island onto a dumb steel lighter moored at the wharf. The crane of the lighter was being used to load the container and in the course of the loading operation the lighter listed towards the wharf and a container on board the lighter to