Judge Harold Leong ruled on 11 September 2026 that a cleaner's own job undid her slip-and-fall lawsuit against her employer.
The cleaner worked for Kai Fu Property Services Company Limited, keeping a public housing estate in Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon clean. She said that back in March 2021, she slipped on water inside a storage room at the estate and hurt her left ankle. So she sued, arguing the company had left the floor wet, skipped a warning sign, and failed to give her a safe way to do her job.
There was just one problem: mopping up wet floors and putting out warning signs when needed was her job. Under cross-examination she admitted as much, and she never disputed that the company had given her a pair of anti-slip boots, which she was wearing when she fell. Hearing the case as DCPI 3250/2023, cited as [2026] HKDC 1634, the judge said this evidence knocked out most of her complaints in one go, since she was the person meant to be managing the very hazard she blamed for her injury. After she closed her case at trial, the judge put a blunt question to her lawyer: "Where was the breach?"
Her account of the accident did not help either. She first said she slipped on water and fell flat, but at trial admitted she had actually twisted her ankle and sat herself down, a different story from the one in her original claim. None of the paperwork from the time backed up a wet floor: her hospital notes from that night recorded only that she had "sprain L (left) ankle tonight when...
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