Read the full judgment text of CACV 000092/1983 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. Whatever else this case may establish, the civil engineers are likely to think it establishes that they have adjusted to the needs of the modern world better than the lawyers. The Water Works Office of the Public Works Department, as it then was, decided to bring water in large quantities from the west of the New Territories to Plover Cove in the east. A range of mountains stood in the way and it was decided that a tunnel should be bored through the mountains for the purpose. The Contractors