Mr Justice Matthew Deery of the Circuit Civil Court has approved a €10,000 settlement for a seven-year-old girl for a small scar from an injury sustained at a shopping centre when she was three years old.
Jasmine D’Arcy Sweeney of Athy, County Kildare, was accidently hit on her right eyebrow by a store detective’s walkie-talkie in the Liffey Valley shopping centre on December 7th, 2006. The accident occurred because the security guard was allegedly not paying attention and knocked over then then three-year-old child.
The child was left with a faint 1cm scar and a slight hair loss on her eyebrow, none of which are noticable under normal circumstances. The minor scar was also unlikely to be noticeable in adulthood.
Because Jasmine D’Arcy Sweeney is a minor, the child injury claim was taken by her mother acting as “next friend” against Chubb Ireland Limited of Stillorgan Industrial Park, County Dublin.