Read the full judgment text of HCA 003971/1986 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 14 May 1992.
1. On 1st May 1984, the plaintiff was employed by the defendant to work at No. 41 Moorsom Road, Jardines' Lookout, Hong Kong. The defendant was the contractor responsible for the construction work being carried out at the said house involving, inter alia, the construction of an additional room on a flat roof. While working on the form-work for a concrete pillar on the parapet wall of the flat roof, a co-worker lost his. balance and fell from the parapet wall bringing the plaintiff down with him.