Read the full judgment text of HCPI 1077/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 October 2010.
1. This case is a tragic sequel to the Garley Building (“Building”) fire disaster of 1996 (“Fire”). After the Fire, the Building was closed and left unoccupied until it was purchased by Worldfaith Properties Ltd (“Owner”) in 2000. The Owner proceeded to demolish the Building with a view to erect a new one. The Defendant, a specialist demolition contractor, took over the site on 29 December 2003. The conventional top-down demolition method was adopted for the demolition works (“Demolition Wor
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