Saleh -v- Moyvalley Meats (Ireland) Ltd [2015]

Posted In: Case Law
  • Case Reference
    IEHC 762
  • Legal Body
    High Court of Ireland (IEHC)
  • Type of Claim / Jurisdiction
    Health and Safety
Issues covered: Health & Safety; Industrial Injury; Compensatory Damages; Aggravated or Exemplary Damages

This case involved a slaughterhouse employee, awarded some €415,000 damages for back pain. The plaintiff contended that, given the nature of the defendant’s defence, and the hurt that the allegations of malingering, the plaintiff was entitled and should have been awarded aggravated or exemplary damages.

http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2015/H762.html  

This article is correct at 27/01/2016
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