Question for the legal eagles here, my understanding such cases can arise due to the Occupier Liability Act, 1995, would this act have to be changed to remove social housing from occupier liability? if a social house is owned by an Approved Housing Bodies rather than the council, who is sued?
Headline article says he got 30k paid out straight away,what happens with that money?
A disgrace that 105k was awarded originally.
He was after a feed of drink. Kick the cunt out of the house. Fucking nonsense.
I fell arsing around in the playground when I was 10 and broke my arm. It was my fault for being a dumb kid messing, not faulty equipment or an unsafe environment. People asked my mam was she going to sue the council because it happened in the playground…..
Absoulely shocking. Don’t do anything to maintain the free house, fall over after 5 pints, and have the audacity to think it’s someone else’s fault. What’s worse is a judge agreed.
This is why council houses sit empty for years. They have to baby proof them so an able bodied 49 year old won’t hurt himself and sue for half the price of the hosue
That €105k (and €30k) is taxpayers money, i.e. you and I have paid for it.
When people chance their arms like this they’re robbing you and I
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Question for the legal eagles here, my understanding such cases can arise due to the Occupier Liability Act, 1995, would this act have to be changed to remove social housing from occupier liability? if a social house is owned by an Approved Housing Bodies rather than the council, who is sued?
Not enough bate from this decade?
Sorry mods. I posted the old part of this story. Can you delete this and I repost the new one. Here https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-who-slipped-in-porch-of-his-council-home-after-five-pints-of-guinness-fails-to-prove-local-authority-in-any-way-responsible-41261945.html
He had 5 pints and slipped. Ffs.
Headline article says he got 30k paid out straight away,what happens with that money?
A disgrace that 105k was awarded originally.
He was after a feed of drink. Kick the cunt out of the house. Fucking nonsense.
I fell arsing around in the playground when I was 10 and broke my arm. It was my fault for being a dumb kid messing, not faulty equipment or an unsafe environment. People asked my mam was she going to sue the council because it happened in the playground…..
Absoulely shocking. Don’t do anything to maintain the free house, fall over after 5 pints, and have the audacity to think it’s someone else’s fault. What’s worse is a judge agreed.
This is why council houses sit empty for years. They have to baby proof them so an able bodied 49 year old won’t hurt himself and sue for half the price of the hosue
That €105k (and €30k) is taxpayers money, i.e. you and I have paid for it.
When people chance their arms like this they’re robbing you and I