Read the full judgment text of CACV 000126/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 20 December 1996.
1. This is an appeal from an order of Her Honour Judge Betty Kwan, dismissing, on 14 May 1996, an application for compensation under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, Cap.282 ("the Ordinance"). The successful respondent, Chan Kam Wing ("the employer") was the employer of one Hon Chun Nam ("the employee") who died on 20 November 1994, aged 36, as a result of severe multiple injuries suffered in a traffic accident ("the accident") in which he had been involved the day before (when driving a v