Read the full judgment text of DCMP 000267/1989 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 4 December 1990.
1. The Appellant Cheng Wai Leung was born in China on 26.12.1954. He only had 2 years education. His working life stared off as a farmer in China for 4 years. In 1975, the appellant came to Hong Kong. He started working in Hong Kong as a construction labourer and he did that for 2 months only, In June 1975, he became a rock caisson worker and as such he had to dig wells by breaking rocks or bore holes into rock for dynamite embeddment with the use of a pneumatic drill. He also had to load concre