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Hong Kong Case Law

Provision of safety equipment
  • 9 Jul 2024

    香港特別行政區 訴 林哲強

    Citation
    [2024] HKCFI 2410
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA70/2023

    Trial judge’s factual findings that the injured worker was instructed to perform elevated work, was provided only a wooden ladder, no helmet, no supervision and that the wooden ladder was unsuitable were open to the judge on the evidence; inconsistencies in the witness account were minor and explicable by injury and memory loss; appellant’s expert evidence depended on assumptions unsupported by the record; on the total evidence the prosecution proved the statutory breaches beyond reasonable doubt and the convictions were properly upheld.