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Similar issueHCPI 455/2018High Court CFI
14 Mar 2019Chan Siu Kwan v Golden Bridge Construction Ltd
The defendant owed a non-delegable duty of care to workers engaged in construction site activities, whether direct employees or subcontractors.
Similar factsDCPI 1203/2020District Court
8 Sep 2020Lee Chun Ming v Mayland Engineering Co
Plaintiff sustained injuries when scaffolding collapsed during site renovation works. Principal contractor held liable for subcontractor's failure to maintain safe working conditions.
Similar outcomeHCPI 891/2019High Court CFI
21 Jun 2020Wong Kam Fai v Richfield Development Ltd
HK$2.4M awarded for permanent partial disability. Plaintiff, a construction worker, rendered unable to perform manual site work following the accident.
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wrongful dismissal without notice
Traditional keyword search
Returns only cases containing the exact phrase
DCEO 234/2019
Leung Wai Man v Pacific Trading Ltd
...plaintiff claims damages, having been subject to wrongful dismissal without notice by the defendant on 3 August 2019...
DCEO 891/2020
Chan Ho Yin v Metro Logistics (HK) Ltd
...employee claims wages in lieu and damages for wrongful dismissal without notice, the defendant having terminated employment summarily...
DCEO 1107/2021
Tam Siu Lung v HK Express Freight Ltd
...respondent alleges wrongful dismissal without notice, seeking statutory and contractual entitlements arising from the termination...
BabelCite
Finds analogous reasoning, not just matching words
DCEO 456/2020
Ho Yuk Ping v Kowloon Properties Ltd
Employer effected summary termination citing gross misconduct. Held: grounds insufficient; employee entitled to payment in lieu of notice and statutory severance.
HCLA 78/2019Matched by reasoning pattern
Ng Kwok Wah v Dynasty Holdings Ltd
Employer's unilateral reduction of commission structure constituted repudiatory breach of the employment contract, entitling employee to treat himself as constructively dismissed.
DCEO 892/2021
Liu Siu Fong v Century Shipping Ltd
Constructive dismissal established where employer's conduct evinced an intention no longer to be bound by essential contractual terms, forcing resignation.
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Describe your legal issue in plain English. The AI finds cases by conceptual relevance — even when exact keywords don't match. Built for lawyers, not search engineers.
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Relevance labels,
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Most legal search tools return a relevance score — a number with no context. We show you why a case matched: the specific legal issue, factual similarity, or analogous reasoning that makes it relevant to your query.
Similar issue
The case addresses the same legal question you raised. Directly on-point authority.
Similar facts
The factual situation closely parallels your client's circumstances. Useful for persuasive authority.
Similar outcome
The case reached a comparable outcome or disposition. Useful for sentencing and remedy arguments.
Hong Kong Case Law Search, Reimagined
BabelCite is an AI-powered semantic search platform covering over 180,000 decisions from the Hong Kong Court of Appeal (CACV), District Court (DC), Court of First Instance, Magistrates Courts, and more. Unlike keyword search engines, our system understands the legal concepts behind your query and returns cases ranked by relevance type — not opaque scores.
Each search result is classified as similar issue, similar facts, or similar outcome — so you know exactly why a case appeared. Browse the full original judgment with paragraph-level anchors, AI-generated summaries, and structured metadata.
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