SINGAPORE - A woman who slipped and suffered a tailbone fracture while walking along a wet market corridor will get compensation after a district judge placed 65 per cent blame on the owner and operator of the premises.
"There are few known falls in a wet market perhaps because visitors know to walk with measured paces and careful balance because of present slip risks," said District Judge Loo Ngan Chor. Her lawyers Raeza Ibrahim and Jonathan Chead argued, among other things, that the tenant of a stall she walked past had occupied an untenanted stall on the other side of the corridor.
The two-day trial earlier this year heard that Ms Lim had taken a route just outside a stall where cooking was improperly going on, stepping on two tiles which sloped slightly down to the flat corridor.The judge noted that no cooking is allowed within the wet market, neither, as a matter of policy by the National Environment Agency, nor by the defendants.