Comments on: Judge in Ireland rules on playground fall

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 01 May 2017 14:28:38 +0000

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 01 May 2017 05:51:45 +0000

There’s also the concept that pain and suffering can’t be given a monetary price, xo only very rare cases will have an award.
Also, note that n this case (and others like it) the Judge determines any compensation – there’s no jury assessment.

Lastly, in English law – and I believe in Irish law – there is a list of injuries and expected compensation issued to Judges. Of course, this can be only a guideline – a top surgeon who loses eg a hand, can sue for loss of earnings (its quantifiable).

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:36:29 +0000

Quite clearly, if this child suffers any sort of injury in her home, her parents should be ruled unfit. That’s the clear takeaway from her mother’s legal position.

Bob

By: Hugo S Cunningham

Hugo S Cunningham — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:10:17 +0000

As in most of Western Europe, Ireland has universal health insurance; both judges and juries know that the family will be spared from ruinous medical expenses in any case. The need to use America’s tort law as a (wasteful and capricious) substitute for universal health insurance is the original cancer from which all the abuses of our civil law have metastasized.

Comprehensive health insurance reform seems to be deadlocked. Nevertheless, it might be possible to create workmen’s comp type coverage for injuries to children at schools and other public places, without need for speculative lawsuits. Let children exercise and grow like healthy children in other societies.

In those rare cases where authorities are truly culpable for endangering children, the remedy is prosecution by the authorities.