Read the full judgment text of DCEC 000035/1979 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 21 November 1979.
1. At or about 10.30 a.m. on the 7th April last year, in the course of its voyage through China Sea, the crew cook of m.v. "JAL SEA CONDOR", one Ng Yau, reported for sick leave whilst on duty and thereupon stopped work and rested in his cabin. There was no physician on board. The First Officer assumed the responsibility for dispensing medicine for use by the crew, but it was the bosun and the carpenter who attended to the crew cook at or about 1.10 p.m., and at or about 6.30 p.m. Ng Yau was foun