31 Jul 2018
SO KAI HAU v. YSK2 ENGINEERING COMPANY LTD
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFI 1803
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI1077/2006
The court held David Chan (as AP of Wellgo) owed a duty to take reasonable care to protect demolition workers including the plaintiff from obvious dangers such as an unattended pressurised BTM cylinder; he breached that duty by failing to take reasonable steps (engage specialists or notify owners) to ascertain or remove the hazard; subsequent negligent acts by demolition parties did not break the chain of causation; under Cap.377 the court assessed contribution and held JMK's agreed liability to YSK2 should be no more than 25% and apportioned responsibility between JMK and Wellgo at 70%/30% r…