Read the full judgment text of CACC 000484/1971 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 February 1972.
2. On the early morning of 12th January 1971 the house in question, traditionally-built four storey Chinese type of building, was so badly damaged by fire that the whole building collapsed on to the ground floor. Eleven people, of whom the deceased was one, died in the fire, their escape or rescue being rendered impossible because the fire spread rapidly and had been started near the locked iron grill front door of the house, there being no rear exit. A number of factors contributed to the feroc