Lee Ann Byrne was awarded €16,000 damages for personal injures
Lee Ann Byrne told her counsel, Conor Kearney, she had been wearing stiletto heels but it had been a slip that had caused her fall rather than having gone over on her ankle. She had not suffered any injury to either of her ankles in the fall. Photograph: Stock photoA 34-year-old woman had slipped on defective steps in a Dublin restaurant rather than having gone over on her four-and-a-half-inch high heels, a judge said Wednesday when awarding her €16,000 damages for personal injuries.
Judge Colin Daly said both parties in the €60,000 damages claim by Lee Ann Byrne accepted there should have been slip resistant nosing on the wooden stairs that had been constructed prior to 1991 building regulations that insisted on such safety measures. Byrne, of Woodford Grove, Clondalkin, Dublin, told the Circuit Civil Court she had visited the Fifty 50 Restaurant in Templeogue with friends on November 24th 2019 and had a glass of wine with her meal.
She said she was on her way out of the restaurant when she had slipped on the first wooden step of a steep exit staircase, causing her to fall backwards and injuring her neck, shoulder, back and legs.
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