Read the full judgment text of CACV 262/2010 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 31 August 2011.
1. On 17 April 2007, during the busy lunch hour period, an elderly woman, Madam Tam, attempted to cross a pedestrian crossing on the Lai Chi Kok Road at the junction with Nam Cheong Street. The crossing is light-controlled, there being lights which control the three lanes of vehicle traffic moving in a southerly direction across the pedestrian crossing and lights which control when pedestrians may cross those three lanes to the pedestrian island in the middle of the Lai Chi Kok Road.