My goodness. I never thought that the day would come when people in Scotland were not responsible for their own actions. Welcome to the litigation process as we know it in the USA. This is the thin edge of the wedge, as people try to collect from others for their own foolishness.

Daft daft daft. Pavements should be kept in good repair but anything which happens to drunks is self inflicted injury and hence the NHS should be sueing her for their costs

That Cardiff has had to pay over two million doesn't surprise me. Our footpaths are not just in a bad state of reapair but many of them are dangerous. The Council is trying to get a grip on things and they only seem to have realised how dangerous the paths had become when Steven Cram's brother, Kevin, died in a fall when jogging - the most likely reason for the fall was that he had tripped on loose paving stones. The other problem is that the Council has been replacing a lot of the older paving stones (which were dangerous) but the new ones take a bit of time to bed in which means that there are a lot of fairly loose paving stones around for people to trip up on!

now.she.can.buy.a.case.of.vodka

Liebeck vs. MacDonalds award was greatly reduced from the $2.7 initially awarded. She should have got NOTHING.

Her comment tells it all. "I deserve a lot more money... it is all the council's fault"

Nasty money grabbing old drunk!

#6
That's not nice.
If it was your granny you would feel differently.

stupid old woman should be charged with being drunk in a publc place and made to undergo an alchahol assessment programme. the sherrif should be looking for a new job if this is evidence of his judgement. drunks are responsible for themselves

#7

Not nice but thoroughly deserved.

We pay for that drunken idiot.

'Aye'..that's what you call "a game old bird" and
...."That's-the-way-to-do-it"!!!
"£7,000".... another Vodka Please!!

Ye cannae shove yer granny aff a bridge.

'CHEERS'

Typical taffy idiot.They talk about the Scots but they are a nation of drunks .Getting compo too....their councils are as daft as them.It`s her fault for getting bloutered not the council.I`d have told her to sling her wheelchair.

I thought the elderly were experts with Bridge??

Gawd give me strength....

i take it she will sue the council again when the old alkey needs a new liver

Typical, aberdeen council tax going up again to pay compensation to some drunken old bag.

She lost count after the 14th vodka........

Beggars belief the taxpayer has to pay her compensation as well as deal with her medical and court costs.

She was voluntarily drunk and incapable. Society DOES NOT have the duty to protect people like that. The council should have sued HER for any damages she may have caused.

The law needs to be change - there has to be some responsibility on behalf of the claimant - proving they took all reasonable measures to avoid the avoid the accident.

Indeed just make it like the laws for defamation - the person claiming most show the accident occurred in circumstances "in which right-thinking members of society" another party was to blame.

I would like to read a follow up article on this story, about how this granny and her friends were prosecuted for perjury for lying about 'only having three glasses of wine'. I would also like to read about how she used the £7,000 to repair the fences in the local park after she was released from prison.
I'd say the same to my granny too!

Daft old bint. She shouldnt have got a penny.

A degree of unanimity above.

Me thinks my learned friend lives in a tower of ivory. Hope you're reading this, Sheriff McLernan.

Sheriff Kiernan McLernan should have booted her case out of court. She was more than 80% responsible, she was 100% responsible.

The stupid woman is old enough (and no doubt ugly enough) to take responsibility for her own stupidity.

I hope the local authority lodges an appeal and takes her to the cleaners for costs.

And I will be expecting Sheriff Kiernan McLernan to resign with immediate effect. It does not do anyone any good to allow claims of this nature---however small the money involved.

possibly her friends that who maintained she only had 3 glasses of wine should now be charged with perjury since she had by her own admission had a much larger swally.
bit of luck her liver will pack in; there will be no transplant and she will pop her clogs before its time to pay too much of her pension.

Incompetent when drunk, and a liar when sober!

I think I would be a bit upset if it was my Granny.

Pesky imaginary handrails!!! Something should be done about them!

WHAT IS THE DIFFERNCE BETWEEN THIS SMELLY OLD DRUNK AND ANY YOUNG NED ON BUCKFAST - NONE.

IF YOU READ A LESSER NEWSPAPER TODAY YOU WILL HAVE THE MISFORTUNE OF SEEING THAT NOT ONLY IS SHE AN OLD DRUNK BUT I THINK SHE HAS POSSIBLY THE MISFORTUNE OF FALLING ON HER FACE EVERY NIGHT AS SHE IS ONE OF THE UUGLIEST WOMEN ONE WOULD ( NOT ) WISH TO MEET.

CHECK THE FACE, I AM SURE THIS WAS NOT AN ISOLATED CASE OF HER FALLING OVER ON IT, IF I HAD A VISAGE LIKE THAT I WOULD STAY AT HOME AND HABE TESCO OR LIDL DELIVER MY VODKA.

THIS IS JUST A JOKE, ANOTHER EXPAMPLE OF LAWYERS JUMPING ON THE BANDWAGON WHEN SOME PUIR AULD SOUL FALLS OVER DUE TO THE COUNCIL NEGLECT, THEN THE STPUID OLD COW WANTS MORE.

JUST THINK WHAT THE COUNCIL TAX PAYERS MUST BE THINKING - SUBSIDISING THIS OLD CRONE FROM THEIR COUNCIL TAX TO GET MORE VODKA.

AT LEAST IF SHE GETS AN INTERIM PAYOUT SHE WILL HOPEFULLY SPEND IT ON VODDIE AND THEN IT WILL HELP HER TO DIE FROM LIVER DISEASE.

I AM SURE THAT WE ARE NOT HEARING THE LAST OF THIS OLD HAG.

Aye,
It's a sad state of affairs when the council bears the responsibility for someone getting pished and falling over!
As to the McDonalds coffee ...what a surprise the coffee was hot! Don't be surprised if someone sues for the iced coffee and the ice cream headache they suffered.
What a stupid world!

Three weeks afore hogmanay. The sheriff was as daft as the drunk biddie. It's only gyaun tae gie fowk ideas for peyin for their Christmas. Get bleezin, fa ower a dyke and get Sivin thoosan aff the cooncil. Ye cudna mak it up. Sheriff McLernan says she wiz only 80% responsible. Did the ither 20% force drink doon her throat. Sheriff McLernan you are a gype. And the cooncil tax peyers o Aiberdeenshire hiv tae pey for this shyte.

The award is fair. The compensation was reduced to take account of the pursuer's contributory negligence.

If the council had not been negligent it would not have had to pay anything at all. It was blameworthy and it is right that it should obliged to partly compensate for the loss and injury suffered.