Horse fall lawyer gets €75,000 after false fraud claim

[Mr_Ed]

"AN equestrian centre owner must pay an extra €30,000 in damages to a solicitor because of "outrageous" fraud allegations made in a lawsuit over a horse riding accident.

Mr Hennessy sought damages arising out of an accident on February 22, 2004 when he suffered an injury after he came off a horse because of the negligence or breach of duty of Mr Cusack and his centre.

Yesterday, Mr Hennessy was awarded €75,000 after the judge increasing his award from €45,000 over fraud allegations made by Mr Cusack's side during the hearing, claiming that Mr Hennessy had never actually ridden the horse."

Read the full report from the indepedent.ie at: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/...im-1736865.html

Leaving aside the actual case I'm surpised that once the case had gone to court it was claimed that the injured person had never ridden the horse!

 

[Tharg]

If he wasn't riding how did he end up injured?

 

[brighteyes]

He did (let's call him A) ride it and fell off it, but the guy responsible for the negligence (B) then said A hadn't ever sat on the horse.

A bit of a mad thing to say, really and rather made matters worse, lying, (it appears) on top of being found negligent!

 

[Puppy]

Oooh, negligence and defamation, two of my favourite torts, all in one case!