Judge accuses claimant of ‘gross exaggeration’

A judge has told a former Dublin civil servant, now retired to a residence in Madrid, Spain, that he had never seen such utter gross exaggeration in his life arising from an injury the claimant had suffered in his local Mace store.

Mr Justice Raymond Groarke told 58-year-old Gerard Masterson it had been preposterous of him to claim that his whole life had been turned upside down as a result of knocking his ankle against the bottom shelf of a shop display.