28 Oct 1986
CHUNG NAM MEDICINE CO. LTD. v. THE TAI PING INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
- Citation
- CHUNG NAM MEDICINE CO. LTD. v. THE TAI PING INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA707/1986
The policy must be construed in the context of interconnected premises protected by a single approved alarm system and bearing the parties' Chinese endorsement; force and violence used to effect entry into the adjacent supermarket (breaking the wall) constituted forcible and violent entry 'into and upon the premises' of the insured shop for the purposes of the policy; the Chinese endorsement and context justify treating the supermarket entry as within cover; there was no operative breach of the alarm maintenance condition or of the key-removal condition as to No.54, so insurer liable for agre…