Hotelier created a tangled corporate web, says judge

A HOTELIER and nightclub owner created a tangled corporate web of companies in a bid to avoid legal responsibility for judgments, a court ruled yesterday.

Judge Gerard Griffin made the remark when he awarded a woman and two men damages for injuries they received in a Dublin nightclub.

Judge Griffin said in the Circuit Civil Court that assault victim Madeline Cullen, aged 51, “had even suffered the indignity of being dragged around the floor in an appalling manner while having her underwear exposed to all and sundry”.