Public servant who fractured ankle after slipping on leaves at work car park awarded €75k

The judge rejected arguments by the Minister that, because there is a contract of indemnity between the Minister and Apelona, any liability in the matter must be ascribed to the company.

In a judgment this week, Mr Justice Max Barrett held, on the balance of probabilities, Shirley Farrell was correct in her view she must have slipped on leaves as she made her way to her car about 7pm that evening.

A woman who fractured her ankle after she slipped and fell in a car park at the offices in Co. Kildare where she worked has been awarded €75,000 damages by the High Court.

Shirley Farrell, a public servant, sued her employer, the Minister for the Agriculture and the Marine, and Apelona HSG Ltd, a company engaged as a facilities manager by the Minister, over the accident at the Backweston premises in Celbridge on October 22, 2015.