23 Dec 2025
CHAN HEI MAN 對 CHING WING FAT及另一人
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 6428
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI1396/2016
The court accepted that the first defendant assaulted the mother (first plaintiff) and is liable in tort; the court rejected the second plaintiff's claim that she was also assaulted on the facts. The court held Tung Wah was not liable: occupiers' liability and negligence did not extend to impose liability for the third party's intentional assault in the factual matrix because Tung Wah did not know or ought reasonably to have foreseen the particular risk or could not have taken realistic measures to prevent the assault; causation therefore failed. Plaintiffs' contractual arguments against Tung…