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Stardust - how did the owners sue DCC and win?

  • 14-10-2020 11:19pm
    #1
    FGR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,464 ✭✭✭


    Apologies for asking a question which may be ridiculously obvious but hopefully one of the learned posters here can explain this to me.

    From Irish Times (link below)
    Because of the finding of probable arson, relatives of the dead and injured were unable to sue the club owners and operators for alleged negligence. However, such legal obstacles did not apply to the Butterlys.

    I can't seem to figure out how the original tribunal's ruling of arson allowed the owners of the club to sue Dublin Corporation. Was there a by law that made them liable for misdeeds of the general public at the time?

    Does such mad exposure still exist for local authorities or was it/is it limited to Dublin?

    It's just bonkers how the victims and their families got hardly a penny whilst the owners walked with over half a million pounds.

    Original article

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/families-unable-to-sue-but-stardust-owners-took-3m-claim-1.2950808

    Thank you for reading and apologies if posted in wrong forum. Also for some reason I can't seem make that link clickable on mobile!


Comments

  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,610 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Councils used to be liable for damage to property by arson. I don't think that is the case any more.


  • #3
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    Victor wrote: »
    Councils used to be liable for damage to property by arson. I don't think that is the case any more.

    Councils open bracket ratepayers) is to be liable for criminal damage to property. This was an invention of the British to force local ratepayers to compensate the victims of War of Independence atrocities.

    Comment

    System was in place long before the War of Independence. Applied to damages to land-lords' property during Land Wars


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