Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000617/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 March 1998.
1. The Plaintiff, who is a former security guard, has suffered for many years, and certainly since 1969, from the serious mental disease of schizophrenia. As a consequence his employment record has been somewhat patchy. He has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital on several occasions the longest period being from early July of 1975 until latter March of 1976. Although this has been described as two separate admissions, which clearly is correct technically, they were separated by only 4 days -