11 Sept 2001
WONG WAI MING v. THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
- Citation
- WONG WAI MING v. THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV86/2001
A psychiatric outpatient centre presented a real and foreseeable risk of violent eruptions; reasonable precautions available and practicable included enclosing the reception counter with a glass screen and installing a panic button; the Authority's failure to implement those precautions breached its duty to staff and that breach causally contributed to the plaintiff's injuries; alternatively, the registered nurse Wong was negligent in his handling and delegation and the Authority is vicariously liable.