The Court of Appeal (CoA) has overturned a €110,000 award to an ESB employee who slipped and fell on stairs as he was collecting post.
The High Court made the award in 2018 to network technician Terence Morgan (63), who fell on a staircase while collecting post at the ESB offices, Avenue Road, Dundalk, Co Louth, on April 30, 2013. The ESB denied negligence and contested the case.
In 2018, the High Court s Ms Justice Bronagh O Hanlon awarded Mr Morgan €110,000, saying he did not get specific training in the task of collecting post, a duty which he had performed over a number of years.
Mr Morgan, of Drumnacarra, Ravensdale, Dundalk, Co Louth, fell on the stairs at the two-storey offices where part of his duties was to collect post to bring down to a franking machine, as well as carrying out technical duties.
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld a €65,000 award to a 10-year-old girl who was injured when she fell at a skating rink and another patron skated over the back of her hand.
Aoibhe Naghten, now aged 15, of Blanchardstown, Dublin, through her mother Teresa Crowley, sued Cool Running Events Ltd, with offices at Glanmire, Co Cork, operators of the pop-up ice rink at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre on December 30, 2015.
It was claimed there was overcrowding and inadequate supervision in the ice-rink on the day when 285 people were present for that particular session.
The defendant denied the claims. It alleged the girl voluntarily assumed the risk of being injured by an established doctrine which states someone who willingly puts themselves in a dangerous situation cannot sue for any resulting injuries (the doctrine of volenti non fit injuria ).