Read the full judgment text of CACV 000100/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 May 1980.
1. Some time after 1 p.m. on 5th December 1977 the appellant and some other workmen were unloading iron bars from a lorry outside the construction site at 461 Jaffe Road. The lorry was parked with its nearside nearest to the kerb facing east. There were other vehicles parked on both sides of the road, but leaving ample room for vehicles to pass between the two rows of parked vehicles. The appellant was working and moving about near the rear of the lorry when he was struck by a passing lorry, sus