Read the full judgment text of DCPI 297/2010 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 29 July 2011.
1. The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a cleaner. On 27 March 2007 whilst working at the Hong Kong International Airport, the plaintiff stepped on a plastic sheet with a plastic film roll underneath. He slipped and fell on the ground, landing on his buttocks first and then his left shoulder. According to the joint expert report of two orthopaedic surgeons, the plaintiff did not lose any consciousness nor suffer from any head injury. The plaintiff was x-rayed and he suffered no bon