Read the full judgment text of HCA 005582/1987 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The Plaintiff was 24 years of age when, on the 13th May 1986, the Defendant assaulted him in the street by punching him in the face breaking his spectacles. Unfortunately, fragments of the lens entered his right eye". The eye was so badly damaged that it had to he removed and a prosthesis fitted in its stead.