Solicitor loses case against cruise ship for false detention after suicide comment

The judge has been left to decide some other issues in the case, including whether there was a breach of contract.

Caroline Fanning claimed she was allegedly falsely imprisoned after she made a “sarcastic” comment that “there may be a suicide” while on the phone with the ship’s receptionist in the early hours of August 9, 2015. File photo: Collins Courts

A High Court jury has found against a solicitor who alleged she was falsely imprisoned after making a comment about suicide while on board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in the summer of 2015.

Caroline Fanning (49), of Foxrock Avenue, claimed she was allegedly falsely imprisoned after she made a “sarcastic” comment that “there may be a suicide” while on the phone with the ship’s receptionist in the early hours of August 9, 2015.