Boy awarded €20k after falling on glass

DoesNotCompute · 04-05-2011 08:28AM #1

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/boys-euro20000-award-after-falling-on-glass-2636649.html

Christ, what a nanny state. I fell on glass too when I was a child, can I get €20,000?????

biko · 04-05-2011 08:30AM

Schoolboy Christopher Connors leaving court after the hearing yesterday. CourtPix.

A YOUNG schoolboy who fell on glass while playing football has been awarded more than €20,000 damages against a local authority.

Christopher Connors had been playing with his cousin in a laneway near his halting site home in Rathfarnham, Dublin, when the incident happened in October 2009.

Barrister Martin Dully told the Circuit Civil Court yesterday that his client Christopher, of Cherryfield Way, Rathfarnham, Dublin, had fallen on broken glass and lacerated his left wrist and forearm.

Mr Justice Matthew Deery was told that Christopher had suffered a slight tear to a tendon in his forearm, which had to be surgically repaired. South Dublin County Council, which runs the halting site, had agreed to the Personal Injury Assessment Board (PIAB) assessing damages. A figure of €20,000 damages for personal injuries together with €1,206 expenses had been suggested, the court heard.

Scarring

Mr Dully said Christopher had made a good recovery within a short time but had been left with scarring which was still visible on his arm. He considered the offer to be reasonable considering the possibility that Christopher could face liability difficulties.

Judge Deery, approving the offer, said that while there was major scarring on Christopher's forearm he did face a substantial issue on liability.

- Ray Managh

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Dravokivich · 04-05-2011 08:35AM

How'd the glass get there?

Uriel. · 04-05-2011 08:35AM

What a ****ing joke. I hate this American-like sue for compensation at every little thing mentality that has creeped into this country in the last 15 years.

It's always someone else's fault.aybe he should have sued his parents from not properly supervising him or for nit explaining the dangers of playing on the street

Padraig Mor · 04-05-2011 08:48AM

"while there was major scarring on Christopher's forearm he did face a substantial issue on liability"

In other words, it was his own bloody fault! Probably broke the glass himself....

MagicSean · 04-05-2011 08:51AM

Obviously the council choose from a pool of retarded barristers who can't fight a case. Or they just have no spine. HSE should investigate the parents for neglect.

mconigol · 04-05-2011 05:23PM

I'm sure there will be somebody along in a few minutes to tell us that it's his right to sue.

landsleaving · 04-05-2011 05:24PM

mconigol wrote: »

I'm sure there will be somebody along in a few minutes to tell us that it's his right to sue.

It is his right.

It should have been his right to be told to f*ck off as well though.

mconigol · 04-05-2011 05:26PM

landsleaving wrote: »

It is his right.

It should have been his right to be told to f*ck off as well though.

True. It is his right to sue. I should have said that there would be someone along in a few minutes to tell us he was entitled to compensation.

phasers · 04-05-2011 05:27PM

I don't understand how this kid had a case. Was the judge drunk?

I should have bloody sued for that time a half empty beer can spilled on my suede shoe.

admiralofthefleet · 04-05-2011 05:28PM

i fell on railings acting the bollix when i was a child, who do i contact to get compo

landsleaving · 04-05-2011 05:28PM

mconigol wrote: »

True. It is his right to sue. I should have said that there would be someone along in a few minutes to tell us he was entitled to compensation.

Nah you shouldn't, it's perfectly clear what you meant and the pedantic attitude of people like me needs to be stamped out dammit!

Fukuyama · 04-05-2011 05:29PM

3 of my friends have all been awarded berween 4 and 14 thousand euros when they went 18 in the last year or so. One guy was doing nick-nacks. He was creeping up the door and the guy opened it to catch him. When the guy was closing the door he went to ring the doorbell as a joke kind-of-thing and ended up getting his thumb broken. His parents sue the poor house owner.

The other kid was running in front of a guy in Dunnes pushing trollies. Him mam didn't tell him to stop. Kids foot gets ran over by the trollies. She sues Dunnes.

Third guy slipped on a glass that had broken on the floor of a pub only seconds earlier and cut his legs. His parents sued.

Cases like these would make me think twice about opening any kind of business that involved a public premises...

mikom · 04-05-2011 05:32PM

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/boys-euro20000-award-after-falling-on-glass-2636649.html

Christ, what a nanny state. I fell on glass too when I was a child, can I get €20,000?????

You weren't from an ethnic minority with a unique culture though.
And your ould lads name wasn't Blackie.

mconigol · 04-05-2011 05:32PM

landsleaving wrote: »

Nah you shouldn't, it's perfectly clear what you meant and the pedantic attitude of people like me needs to be stamped out dammit!

Sorry I almost had a bit of a lapse in my righteous indignation there!

Wolfe Tone · 04-05-2011 05:33PM

cha ching!

UglyBolloxFace · 04-05-2011 05:34PM

Hmm it appears he is a member of the, em, how do I put this...em....that community.
But that's irrelevent:pac:

stovelid · 04-05-2011 05:34PM

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

I fell on glass too when I was a child, can I get €20,000?????

Possibly not as the Euro currency may not have existed then.

opinion guy · 04-05-2011 05:35PM

OK could someone please translate what they mean by 'liabilities' ???

DebDynamite · 04-05-2011 05:37PM

Who's fault was it?

mikemac · 04-05-2011 05:37PM

No shortage of hungry young barristers out there looking to make a name.

Council have given it a try. Even if they lost it'd be worth it
It would have been so much higher, there is a cap of 38k in this court afaik

Laneways near halting sites are often full of rubbish and scrap though......

Schism · 04-05-2011 05:47PM

I have a scar on my leg where I fell on glass when I was small. I didn't get money, I got told to stop crying!

Gimme moneh.

orourkeda · 04-05-2011 05:48PM

One man one jar should sue

Pdfile · 04-05-2011 05:51PM

k_mac wrote: »

Obviously the council choose from a pool of retarded barristers who can't fight a case. Or they just have no spine. HSE should investigate the parents for neglect.

agreed but theirs little info in the tabloid above ( or not enough to make assumptions )

meh, it sucks getting a cut when your a kid, streets should be cleaner etc

Chinasea · 04-05-2011 05:51PM

I'd like to sue now after reading this as I think it has just helped me loose my mind

hatrickpatrick · 04-05-2011 05:52PM

Council owned site. Maybe this'll teach them to get off their arses and fix things when they need fixing rather than just letting broken stuff just sit there.

stovelid · 04-05-2011 05:52PM

Schism wrote: »

I have a scar on my leg where I fell on glass when I was small.

Me too. Large scar on my knee from falling on a Coke bottle. It's handy for telling people I was left scarred from a coke pickup that went wrong.

Sofiztikated · 04-05-2011 05:55PM

feelingstressed wrote: »

No shortage of hungry young barristers out there looking to make a name.

Council have given it a try. Even if they lost it'd be worth it
It would have been so much higher, there is a cap of 38k in this court afaik

Laneways near halting sites are often full of rubbish and scrap though......

Huh, really? Wonder where it comes from.

Me and another young fella found a bunch of florescent tubes when we were young. Cue Star Wars shenanigans. Cut to smash, and the other fellas palm of hand getting badly cut. Mate still can't close his fist completely because of it. We got a clip on the ear for making the adult have to bring him to A&E!

IngazZagni · 04-05-2011 05:56PM

What's the betting that the broken glass was from someone at the halting site? It's an absolute joke though.
However I remember playing football in herbert park in South Dublin and cutting myself from a brokenn bottle (green glass on green grass). To think I could have got compensation from it. We did tell a warden about it and asked them to be more vigilant for broken bottles on the playing pitches.

mikom · 04-05-2011 05:57PM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Mate still can't close his fish completely because of it.

Ye should have stayed away from that plaice.

mconigol · 04-05-2011 05:57PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Council owned site. Maybe this'll teach them to get off their arses and fix things when they need fixing rather than just letting broken stuff just sit there.

Maybe the people living there could keep it clean.

Boy awarded €20k after falling on glass

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