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The boy suffered significant scalding injuries and has been left with four inch scar.

A judge has approved a €40,000 damages settlement offer to a 14-year-old schoolboy who was accidentally scalded as staff at a Dublin school was preparing a noodles lunch for him.

Barrister Esther Earley told Judge John O’Connor in the Circuit Civil Court today that boiling water had poured onto the left upper thigh of Stefan Dascalu at St Michael’s House special education school on Ballymun Road, Ballygal, Dublin 9.

Ms Earley, who appeared with Keira O’Reilly of Keans Solicitors, said Stefan, of Grace Park Manor Upper, Drumcondra, Dublin, was 12 at the time, and had suffered a significant scalding injury that had been left with a four inch by three inch scar.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/schoolboy-14-awarded-40-000-after-accidental-scalding-by-noodles-at-school-1.4848197

Bridget Delaney’s action questions the legal basis of the guidelines, which have resulted in damages awarded being reduced by 40 per cent

There would be “riots on Trafalgar Square” if the personal injury guidelines in England had regard to the level of damages awarded in Ireland, a court has heard.

The claim was made as part of a legal challenge to the new guidelines for personal injury awards which began in the High Court last week.

The guidelines were adopted by the state’s judges in March last year, and have resulted in payouts being reduced.

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https://www.businesspost.ie/legal/waterford-woman-begins-legal-challenge-to-new-personal-injury-award-guidelines-18bd1a16

A shoplifter bit off the ear of a Tesco customer who tried to stop him stealing razors, lamb and champagne before swallowing it and saying: “I have HIV”, a court has heard.

When other customers told the victim to go and look for his missing ear in the wake of the attack, he told them: “I can’t. It’s in his stomach”, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Friday.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/shoplifter-bites-off-tesco-customer-s-ear-and-swallows-it-court-hears-1.4848214