23 Mar 2015
LEE KIN HUNG v. LAO PAK CHON t/a LUNG KONG ELECTRIC ENGINEERING AND OTHERS
- Citation
- LEE KIN HUNG v. LAO PAK CHON t/a LUNG KONG ELECTRIC ENGINEERING AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI705/2010
The court rejected the plaintiff's evidence as inherently inconsistent with contemporaneous medical and employer reports and implausible given the absence of any reasonable motive or evidence of a multi-party cover-up; accepted defendants' witnesses; held plaintiff failed to prove the accident occurred as alleged (scaffolding tilt) on the balance of probabilities; further held the unpleaded alternative scenario was not available to save the claim because it was not adequately pleaded and its adoption would be unfair and raise unresolved statutory/regulatory issues; accordingly dismissed the c…