A woman who suffers from multiple sclerosis probably had her condition aggravated as a result of a fall in a shop, a High Court judge found yesterday. He awarded her £329,148 in damages.
Mr Justice O'Neill made the award in favour of Mrs Mary Curran (45), a mother of three children, of Blarney, Co Cork, who alleged she fell in the shop premises of Mr John Finn at Coburg Street, Cork, on March 9th, 1993.
In a reserved judgment, the judge said he had concluded, as a matter of probability, that the fall suffered by Mrs Curran, which resulted in a prolapsed thoracic disc, did cause an aggravation of her MS.