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Humans worring cattle

  • 12-10-2013 11:17am
    #1
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭


    Dogs worrying livestock is the only one from the top of my head.

    Rylands, yeah, but rylands is not a tort in itself.
    Just been reading another thread in which the above quote comes.

    Recently, I saw a group of teenagers (who were waiting for their school bus to take them home) amuse themselves by jumping over a wall and chasing cattle in a field.

    I was really disgusted by their attitude, not to mention their foul language. I was thinking of going to the school principle about it, but having seen the above quote, I was wondering if there was a legal implication in their actions, i.e. is their a law for humans as well as dogs chasing cattle?


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    The dog or flood waters can't be meaningfully punished or give the victim any recompense, humans can. Teenagers worrying cattle is a direct nuisance / tort, not something independent of them.

    Complaint to school, Garda, ISPCC or parents would be appropriate, if nothing else for their own safety if there is a bull in the field.


  • #3
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    In the other thread, the worrying of livestock as a strict liability tort only applies to dogs.

    That's because shooting the dog may be a legitimate remedy where the dog is, or is inevitably about to, worry a farmer's livestock. Therefore, it is a strict liability tort.

    Needless to say no comparable remedy applies here !

    Cruelty to animals by humans is prohibited under S.12 of the Animal Health & Welfare Act 2013 and would be a matter for Gardaí.


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