Read the full judgment text of HCMA 000500/1985 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. Three workmen were killed and one injured when they were buried under a pile of debris during the demolition of a four storey factory building at 55 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong at about 8 a.m. on 24th April 1982. The tragedy occurred when that part of the second floor above where they were working suddenly collapsed and fell on them. A building surveyor and two structural engineers on subsequent inspections of the site concluded that the only reasonable explanation for the collapse was that the