CHEUNG SHUK WAH JESSICA AND LAI PO LAM DESIREE, THE ADMINISTRATRICES OF THE ESTATE OF MAN CHUNG WAH, DECEASED v WONG KANG HUNG DARWIN formerly trading as NEW VOICE PUB

Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000012/2009 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 June 2010.

1. This case concerns a very tragic incident.  In a nutshell, the deceased in this case was murdered shortly after work and in the course of escorting his female colleague away from work.  The 1 st plaintiff, who is the wife of the deceased, now sues the employer of the deceased in negligence and breach of duty as an employer.  It had already been held in DCEC842/2007 that the murder occurred in the course of the deceased’s employment.  However, whatever sympathy anyone has for the deceased and

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