The High Court has awarded €50,000 to a mother over psychological injuries suffered after the school bus her teenage daughters were travelling on swerved and overturned into a ditch.
The Court of Appeal quashed an acquittal by the Circuit Court, and ordered a retrial of mother on counts of sexual assault and neglect of children, where the trial judge had excluded admissions made by her during an interview by a forensic psychologist in wardship proceedings, on the grounds that the interests of justice would have been served by allowing the contents of the interviews to be adduced at trial.