Read the full judgment text of HCA 008028/1981 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The deceased died on the 2nd July 1980 as a result of an electric shook which he received when he was working on a construction site at 45 Wong Chuk Hangs Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong. The deceased was helping to store some angle irons that were at the entrance of the site to the top of the hoardings. A loose copper wire that was not properly earthed became live through a leakage in the electricity supply. It appears that the copper mire electrified some metal on the hoardings where the deceased