Read the full judgment text of HCA 004321/1981 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 5 May 1982.
1. This action for damages in negligence reveals a tragic story. Madam Ho Hing Mui, the plaintiff, married in 1974. She gave birth to a son by Caesarean section during the following year. On the 26th July 1978, when she was 23 years of age, she was admitted to the Princess Margaret Hospital (a Government hospital) for the birth of her second child, and a baby girl was delivered two days later, again by Caesarean section. She decided, on medical advice, that she should not risk further pregnancie