Student, 16, awarded €40k damages after Tesco fall

A 16-year-old student, who injured her left knee and back after she slipped and fell in a Tesco store, has been awarded almost €40,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Counsel Rory O’Reilly told the court that, in June 2013, Anne Teresa Stokes had been with her mother and two sisters at Tesco, Clearwater Shopping Centre, Finglas, Dublin, when the accident happened.

Mr O’Reilly said that Ms Stokes, who was 14 at the time, slipped on a liquid on the floor and fell on her knee. She had banged the back of her head in the fall.