31 May 2019
SO KAI HAU v. YSK2 ENGINEERING CO LTD
- Citation
- [2019] HKCA 617
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV417/2018
The Court held that Wellgo, through its AP David Chan, owed a duty to take reasonable care to protect persons entering the building from obvious dangers including the unattended BTM cylinder; Chan breached that duty by failing to take the reasonable step of engaging a specialist to assess or remove the cylinder; the negligent acts of the demolition team did not break the chain of causation but are relevant to apportionment; accordingly the trial judge’s apportionment and contribution award against Wellgo was upheld.