Beyond reasonable doubt vs balance of probabilities

CIARAN_BOYLE · 24-02-2018 3:29pm #1

I was recently explaining the distinction between civil cases and criminal cases and the different standards of evidence applied in both.

I would appreciate if you could refer to cases where someone was found not guilty in a criminal trial but was then successfully sued for damages for the same incident.

judeboy101 · 24-02-2018 3:32pm

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I was recently explaining the distinction between civil cases and criminal cases and the different standards of evidence applied in both.

I would appreciate if you could refer to cases where someone was found not guilty in a criminal trial but was then successfully sued for damages for the same incident.

OJ

Samuel T. Cogley · 24-02-2018 4:41pm

Just to muddy the waters, elements of criminal cases; in favour of the accused usually, only have to be proved on the balance of probability.

McCrack · 25-02-2018 3:01pm

Omagh bomber is a good example

Carawaystick · 25-02-2018 10:52pm

You regularily see false imprisonment civil cases won by the kidnappee but no convictions or even trials of the respondants - most recently I read was a woman unlawfully detained by IÉ agents for photographing in Pearse station. Or the woman who settled her case when she was incorrectly brought to Mountjoy because the gardaí thought she had failed to pay her tv license