Read the full judgment text of HCA 004942/1984 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 February 1986.
1. This action concerns a fatal accident which occurred on the 27th December 1981 at the construction site of the Ngau Tau Kok House Ownership Scheme Marketing/Housing Complex (Phase II Stage I), On Wah Street, Kowloon, in which a carpenter CHAN Kwok-sum was struck on the head by an object described in the pleadings and in evidence as a piece of grouting block, and died later is hospital. The post-mortem report (at p.11 of the agreed bundle) gives the cause of death as "fracture of the skull wit