Read the full judgment text of DCEC 000420/1989 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 24 September 1991.
1. This is a claim for employees' compensation. The accident out of which the claim arises happened on 8th January 1989, at a construction site in Kowloon at which the applicant employee, then aged 33, was engaged in manual labour as the employee of the lot respondent, a sub-contractor-of the 2nd respondent, the principal contractor. He lost his footing on a slippery staircase, fell several steps and injured his back. Liability was admitted on behalf of both respondents in the course of the hear