Master Prisca Cheung ordered a resident to repay a property firm about HK$586,000 for assaulting its security guard, in a ruling dated 27 August 2026.
The District Court’s decision followed an assault at the residential building where the resident lived, after he confronted the guard about the air-conditioning in the building’s lobby on 7 June 2022. According to the judgment, the resident pushed the guard’s chest twice, hit his head once and punched his face several times. The guard was taken to Ruttonjee Hospital with tenderness to his head, face and upper back, bruising to his face and an abrasion to his lower lip. The resident later pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was fined HK$5,000 in the criminal case; he admitted the facts and was convicted.
The guard brought employees’ compensation proceedings against his employer, Knight Frank (Services) Limited. By consent order, interlocutory judgment on liability was entered against the employer in January 2023, a standard outcome given that employers’ compensation liability does not depend on fault. A medical board later certified a 5% permanent loss of earning capacity, and the guard accepted sanctioned payments that brought his total compensation to about HK$315,000, made up of periodical payments, medical reimbursement and a lump sum.
The employer then sued the resident to recover that sum, plus the guard’s legal costs and its own legal costs in the compensation case, relying on section 25(1)(b)...
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