Read the full judgment text of DCPI 000090/2000 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 24 July 2001.
1. The defendants operate the passenger ferry service between Discovery Bay and the Central pier at Hong Kong. On 22 August 1999, the plaintiff was a passenger on board one of their ferries, Discovery Bay 7. The Hong Kong Observatory had raised the No. 8 Typhoon Signal and so what I get from that is that there would have been strong winds passing through Victoria Harbour at the time. When the vessel docked at Central pier, the plaintiff was disembarking by means of the gangplank. He slipped on t